The trial book appears on a wider range of web sites

More progress on the ‘trial run’ showing up on various booksellers’ sites on the internet. Clearly this is important since any book published by lulu but with an ISBN is going to be sold primarily through the main bookseller sites.
The story so far was that the trial run book showed up on amazon.com a couple of weeks ago – I even had time to go through the ‘search inside’ process and have that show up on amazon.com. but there was nothing on any other site.
I am happy to report that this has now changed. The trial run book is now appearing on amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, amazon.co.jp (big in Japan!), and also on whsmith.co.uk. It does not yet show up on barnesandnoble.com, waterstones.com or borders.com or borders.co.uk.
It’s probably also worth noting other items: the publication date is listed on amazon.com as 8 February, and on the other sites on which it appears as 13 March. This probably says more about the publishing cycle than anything else. Also, the amazon.com site has listed the book as ‘in stock’ since it first appeared; the amazon.co.uk says ‘temporarily out of stock’; the whsmith.co.uk site says ‘available in four or more weeks’, and the amazon.ca site says ‘currently unavailable’. I don’t think there’s a way within lulu.com to influence any of these things. With respect to the sites that don’t list the trial book, I think I just have to keep checking.