Release Issued by Blurb:
Ideal for professional photographers and consumer enthusiasts alike
September 2007 — Blurb, the creative book publishing service, is now available in the UK, democratizing publishing and bringing book creation to anyone with stories to tell, photos to share, and experiences to document. Simple and easy to use, anyone can create beautifully designed books by dragging and dropping photos and auto flowing text into one of hundreds of layouts using Blurb’s free BookSmart software, available at
www.blurb.com
Blurb has printed over 50,000 books in the US since launching one year ago. Photographers have enthusiastically embraced the service to showcase their creativity and create professional-quality products.
Recently expanding their menu of book sizes to meet user demand, Blurb books are now available in standard 8x10 portrait and 10x8 landscape plus a large format landscape 13x11 and a square 7x7 book.
“Blurb is revolutionizing the publishing industry, each book is printed on demand in any quantity enabling a photographer to produce one book for themselves, a dozen for a client or an infinite amount to be sold at a profit,” said Eileen Gittins, Blurb’s founder and CEO. She continues:
“With the recent addition of sizes, professional and prosumer photographers can now create a true ‘coffee-table’ book showcasing their work, which they can then present to clients, showcase in galleries, or leave behind for potential buyers.”
Blurb recently announced its Set Your Price program allowing Blurb authors to create and sell books for profit online in the Blurb Bookstore. Authors set their own price and keep 100 percent of the profits.
Blurb’s BookSmart software is free, runs on a Mac or PC, and offers a wide variety of templates created by commercial book designers. The software enables anyone to create, share, and distribute affordable, beautiful, bookstore-quality books.
Soft-cover prices start at Ł9.95 for a 40 page, 8x10 4-color book with the same 80# coated, semi-matte paper and professional print quality Blurb delivers in its hard-cover books. Blurb users can now create a single file, then order books in soft-cover, hard-cover, or both.
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