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Lulu is great. They take Word, PDF, etc.. If you want to give it away for free, they'll do it for free too. If you want to make money, they'll do all the fulfillment and getting money. Plus you can offer it as a bound book too! (For money of course.)

It sounds like you're looking for a creative designer as opposed to a graphic designer. I may be using those terms loosely, but I would define the former as someone who can start with a rough concept and bring it to life in their own style, or fashioned after some examples of work that you like. While the latter is more handy at taking pretty clear direction ...

As stated earlier, Word has some great templates to get you that polished look. You can then save to PDF using the PDF/XPS add-in. Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&displaylang=en

Explore Word's built-in templates. Some of them are quite sophisticated and polished. I would do so before hiring a professional to do the same thing. Just apply good-looking templates to your document and see what comes out. You might be surprised with the result and you may save a lot of money. As to the PDF conversion, Word 2007 does it I believe, if ...

It would depend upon whether you already have some presence on the web around your niche. While I'll agree on the part about cheesy long-page-sales letters that most of them have with all sort of false scarcity, 10s of upsells and "ending tonight" urgency, but there are some nice folks too from whom you can get ideas and adjust to your requirement. For me ...

I believe it depends on the content itself. If the content is a $19.99 "101 ways to improve your SEO and make $1 million dollars while sleeping on the beach" book I think one would do better by selling the PDF directly through their site. That way, control of the pitch & close statements can be strongly managed to encourage conversations. Also, ...

The model that the phone companies work with is a subscription model. The hardware enables the service so they can make money on text messages, phone calls and Internet access. If publishers wanted to adopt this model, they would have to get a monthly subscription fee in order to give away the hardware. It's an interesting model to think about. The downside ...

You can also try Clickbank. And for print-publishing, try CreateSpace But you're better off figuring out how to market yourself. Selling is the real skill. Content creation without marketing is a commodity. Not a good place to be. Start blogging. Build traffic. Sell your own content to your own community.

see this - http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/e-commerce/TCH_ECM/527412-3231498?browseIdx=0&sik=1258184835775&goback=.ama

You may also want to try crowdspring.com (which is like 99designs). I haven't used 99designs (though I plan to in the near future) but crowdspring does bring in a strong yield of designs. The catch is to ensure that your award is high enough to be worth a designer/illustrators time to attempt to "win". One thing to know about these design competition ...

You might try a portfolio site like carbonmade - http://www.carbonmade.com/portfolios/ - they are the biggest I know of. You can search by skill or areas of expertise/industry and search for work. It might be a little more time consuming to search through the site, but overall I think you'll find higher quality designers, and art directors who are willing ...