-takes a txt file
-converts it into LuLu.com-novel-format PDF
-including pagination
-maybe with some options on font/style etc.
I was thinking this had nothing to do with LV, but maybe, sure, we could make LV books to go along with a CD ... and sell em at cost thru LULU. more books for the people.
The other application would be just to help unpublished novelists use lulu more easily.
PS: www.lulu.com is a cheap easy way to self-publish. I a one-off 250p text-only book costs min $8, on top of which the seller can add a royalty as high as they like. so you could sell at $20 and get $16 out of it. Says Lulu:
Lulu provides you with the tools to publish and sell your books online, but it is up to you to do all the formatting and layout of your manuscript before you publish it on Lulu.
DISCLAIMER: I've got a unpublished manuscript I'm trying to get published, and admittedly this tool might come in handy for me personally - but the interest is rather publishing in general and what a powerful tool this would be for everybody - not just me. It will help do for book publishing what podcasting did for radio, and blogging did for feature-writing.