Blurb Nominated For A 2008 Webby Award
Blurb nominated in the Best Services Category, selected from among 10,000 entries
San Francisco, Calif. – April 28, 2008 – The Webby Awards – the Internet’s most respected symbol of success – has nominated Blurb for the Best Services Category of 2008. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from around the world and nominated Blurb and four other companies in the Services category, for websites that allow real-world activities. Blurb is a creative book publishing platform that lets users make, share, market, and sell real books.
Now through May 1st, fans can vote for Blurb in The Webby People’s Voice Awards presented by Nokia at http://pv.webbyawards.com.
"You know you’re doing a lot of things right when you’re nominated for a Webby Award," said Eileen Gittins, Blurb’s founder and CEO. "Our website reflects our passion and commitment to helping people and communities create and share their work and their stories via books. We’re thrilled to be nominated for a Webby; it’s validating, exciting, and incredibly flattering."
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, "Simpson's" creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.
Blurb shares the spotlight with exceptional company. Websites such as Anthony Bourdain’s Top Chef Blog, Best Week Ever from VH1, GQ, Style.com, ESPN.com, Slate Magazine, NYTimes.com, Wired.com, Pentax Photo Gallery, Nike Golf, Atom Films, BBC News, Flickr, and Moo are just a few of the sites up for Webby Awards.
Previous Webby Awards winners include Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo!, iTunes, Google, FedEx, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Salon Magazine, Evite, Meetup, Wikipedia, Flickr, Comedy Central, PBS, and The Onion.
This year’s winners will be announced on May 6, 2008 and honored at a star-studded gala in New York City on June 10th.
To create a Blurb book, all users start by downloading Blurb BookSmart™ software from the Blurb website. Blurb’s BookSmart software is free, runs on a Mac or PC, and offers a wide variety of book layouts created by professional book designers. Blurb enables anyone to affordably make, share, market, and sell beautiful, bookstore-quality books.
About Blurb
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb is flexible and smart enough to help anyone make a book – photographers, creative professionals, bloggers, artists, writers, travelers, everyone. Blurb’s bookstore and online marketing tools let people share, market, and sell their books, and keep 100% of the markup. Blurb’s community features empower socially connected groups of consumers and professionals to create Blurb books together.
Blurb won a 2008 Webby Award for Best Services website, has been recognized as an OnMedia 100 winner by AlwaysOn in 2008, was named a Momentum 15 company by Dealmaker Media in 2007, and was the 2007 Pixel Awards Geek Winner. Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005 and is funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Blurb BookSmart™ software is free for Mac or PC at www.blurb.com.
About The Webby Awards
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites. Established in 1996, the 12th Annual Webby Awards received a record 9,500 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Adobe; The Creative Group; .ORG; The Barbarian Group; Level3; Adweek; Fortune; Variety; Wired; IDG: Brightcove; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image.
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