Personal book publisher Blurb launches
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Blurb can also slurp all your blog postings and turn them into a book.
The concept is not entirely new. Mac owners can order photo books staright out of iPhoto. Qoop provides a similar service. And Lulu is another self-publishing company that has been around for a while.
We recorded a podcast for Inside Silicon Valley with Blurb founder Eileen Gittins where she talks about the Blurb vision and how her company is different.
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Admittedly having taken a very cursory look, it seems that their pricing is a lot higher than something like lulu.com and the service is a lot more limited. Lulu works more like a publisher- you can do one copy or you can have them wholesale the books for you and split profits. Obviously you have to create a market.
As a consumer thing, you've also got Apple and KOdak offering custom color one-off books at similar prices so I'm not sure what's interesting here.
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I'm interested in creating a one-off book that contains photos and text. The Apple and Kodak sites appeared geard more toward photo books
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