Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins, today outlined the developments for the company during 2010 and what we can expect in 2011. Part of those plans include a full bespoke book service and expended distribution including e-books for the iPad. From the CEO’s open letter: An Open Letter from Blurb‘s CEO to our Customers, Partners, and Friends…
Andrew Sullivan Turns Again to Blurb
Andrew Sullivan Turns Again to Blurb “For the second time, author, editor, and blogger Andrew Sullivan has taken reader content on his 10-year-old Daily Dish blog on the Atlantic Web site and created a crowd-sourced printed book published by Blurb and sold through its online bookstore. Last Friday Sullivan blogged about how the book, The…
Blurb To Publish Book on Friendly Fire Incident in Afghanistan
Blurb, a DIY self-publishing service, has announced the publication of one of its most significant titles ever. From July 29th, Boots on the Ground by Dusk, a book written by Mary Tillman with Narda Zacchino, shares the story of US Army Ranger Pat Tillman’s life and a family’s unrelenting efforts to uncover the truth about…
Blurb Launch Online Bookshow Widget
Blurb has announced the launch of their Blurb BookShow, a preview feature enabling authors to share their books in a showcase format on Facebook, Twitter, their blog, a web site, and many other social media networks allowing third-party programs. Blurb has become a very popular option for self-publishers, micro-publishers, photographers and artists to publish good quality…
Scribd Form POD Partnerships For Books
Scribd is a social network site for sharing written content and selling books in its ebook store. They have just announced a partnership to expand into printed books with Magcloud, Blurb and Mimeo ultilizing print-on-demand technology. Users and customers of Scribd will now be able to transform loaded files into printed magazines (Magcloud), books (Blurb)…
2010 May Be The Time For Lulu To Drop The Self From Self-Publishing
Lulu are looking to continue in 2010 where they left off last year with a sustained attempt to address and improve all facets of their website and publishing services, and perhaps gain back some ground they lost to their rival competitor CreateSpace. Though Lulu did strengthen their marketplace in-house and with outside affiliations, as well…
2009: The Year That Was (Jan – April)
So, here we go, 2009, the year that was in publishing. This is by no means a conclusive round-up, but the stories and events that caught my eye. JANUARY The year began with a lot of anxiety in the publishing world. There were already plenty of rumours and murmurings of editors walking the plank, staff…
Blurb Release Booksmart 2.5 & Flat-rate-shipping
Blurb, a free self-publishing option for authors, have just released the latest version of their Booksmart software. The 2.5 version of Booksmart includes new design and control features and improved stability of the application. Blurb have also introduced much cheaper flat-rate-shipping and together with the new software improvements, it looks like another significant step forward.…
Blurb – Reviewed (Updated – May 2014)
I have re-edited the Blurb review and updated some separate material not originally included. Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittens, a highly successful business woman with US global companies Kodak and Wall Data amongst others on her CV. She studied photography in her younger days and set up Blurb as on line self-publishing solutions…
Blurb Launches PDF Upload Facility
Blurb have finally made a critical step forward in their development as a DIY self-publishing company. Users can now design and layout their own books and load them up to Blurb’s on line system as PDF’s. This opens up the choice for authors to use programs such as Adobe and Indesign for their book layout…