Sites like Lulu

01 · Entity

About Lulu

Lulu lulu.com

Global Book Printing, Publishing, and Technology Company | Lulu

Lulu is a publishing technology platform for on-demand book printing and global fulfillment, powered by APIs and ecommerce integrations.

Wikidata: company offering self-publishing, printing, and distribution services

Top 10K · #5,656 English 13 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Lulu provides print-on-demand book printing, self-publishing tools, and global fulfillment, including a print API and ecommerce integrations for selling books directly to consumers.

Who it’s for

Self-publishing authors, businesses, and publishers

Business model

Printing and fulfillment fees, sales commissions

• self-publishing and print-on-demand
• self-publishing
• print-on-demand books
• book printing API
• Shopify book fulfillment
• short run printing
• personalized books
• white-label book fulfillment
• direct buy button

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Lulu’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

1. 01
   Bookshop.org bookshop.org Top 10K English

   book e-commerce website

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Mailgun
   • SendGrid

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2. 02
   Yumpu yumpu.com Top 10K English

   YUMPU - Publishing digital magazines worldwide

   YUMPU releases magazines, documents and catalogs on the internet. Publish for free. Gain new readers and costumers worldwide.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Bootstrap
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Font Awesome

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3. 03
   Shutterfly shutterfly.com Top 10K English

   Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding

   Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.

   • Apple Business
   • Google Search Console
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Next.js
   • React
   • Adobe

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4. 04
   Zazzle zazzle.com Top 10K English

   Uh-oh! Something doesn't look right.

   platform for building online shops

   • Google Search Console
   • Atlassian
   • Fastly
   • Proofpoint
   • Stripe

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5. 05
   Big Cartel bigcartel.com Top 10K English

   Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses

   Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Next.js
   • React

   0 say Big Cartel is a good alternative to Lulu 0 say Big Cartel isn’t a real alternative to Lulu

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6. 06
   FlippingBook flippingbook.com Top 10K English

   FlippingBook | Flipbook Maker for Digital Publishing

   Convert PDFs into online flipbooks with FlippingBook digital publishing tool. Brand your flipbook, share it with clients, track stats, and more.

   • Apple Business
   • Google Fonts
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • ASP.NET
   • Mailchimp

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7. 07
   De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

   De Gruyter Brill

   De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

   • Apple Business
   • Google Search Console
   • Atlassian
   • Bootstrap
   • Brevo
   • Amazon CloudFront

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8. 08
   Flipsnack flipsnack.com Top 10K English

   Online Flipbook Maker - Create Interactive Flipbooks | Flipsnack

   Create flipbooks online using our interactive flipbook maker. Flipsnack is the easiest way to make brochures, magazines & catalogs. Upload PDF or design online!

   • Apple Business
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Amazon SES
   • Atlassian
   • Amazon CloudFront

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9. 09
   Vistaprint vistaprint.com Top 10K English

   VistaPrint Official Website: Online Printing Services

   VistaPrint online printing services help you create and order the best custom products: marketing materials, business cards, signage, promotional products, custom gifts, packaging and more.

   • Apple Business
   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Meta Business Suite

   0 say Vistaprint is a good alternative to Lulu 0 say Vistaprint isn’t a real alternative to Lulu

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10. 10
    OverDrive overdrive.com Top 10K English

    OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.

    Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.

    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Atlassian
    • Azure DNS
    • Canva
    • DocuSign

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11. 11
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

    • Apple Business
    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Next.js
    • React
    • Atlassian

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12. 12
    Alphapolis alphapolis.co.jp Top 10K English

    portal site where you can enjoy novels, manga, games, book information, etc. for free

    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Amazon Route 53

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13. 13
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

    • Apple Business
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Meta Business Suite

    0 say Medium is a good alternative to Lulu 0 say Medium isn’t a real alternative to Lulu

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14. 14
    AbeBooks abebooks.com Top 10K English

    AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles

    Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.

    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon SES
    • Atlassian
    • Canva
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Microsoft 365

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15. 15
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Adobe
    • Atlassian
    • Canva

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16. 16
    TeePublic teepublic.com Top 10K English

    e-commerce crowdsourcing site where artists can upload and sell their designs

    • Cloudflare
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Atlassian
    • GlobalSign

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17. 17
    Calaméo calameo.com Top 10K English

    Calaméo - Publishing Platform for Documents and Magazines

    Publishing platform for digital magazines, interactive publications and online catalogs. Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide

    • Google Search Console
    • Cookiebot
    • Google Ads conversion tracking
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Tag Manager
    • HubSpot

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18. 18
    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

    DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Amazon Route 53

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19. 19
    FlipHTML5 fliphtml5.com Top 10K English

    Online digital publishing software / HTML5 flipbook maker

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon SES
    • Zoho Mail

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20. 20
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

    • Google Search Console
    • Bing Webmaster Tools
    • Matomo
    • nginx

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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to lulu.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Lulu uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Lulu is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.