Recent Stories
USA Today | May 8, 2008
New book covers from Blurb
"Blurb adds a new style of book cover, which CEO Eileen Gittins describes as a cross between the "Dr. Seuss-style" children’s hardcover and fancy art books. Instead of the dust jacket, which Blurb normally puts on its books, now the images are ingrained directly into the book itself. "
The New York Times | April 17, 2008
Turn Those Bytes Into Books
"Eileen Gittins, the chief executive and founder of Blurb.com, says that her site is working on nurturing a culture around creating books by cultivating relationships between the amateurs and the professionals. "We’re finding that books are this very interesting way for people who want to meet up. People want to see each other’s books. We realized we had the beginnings of a marketplace here."
TechCrunch | April 15, 2008
Build A Book On Facebook With Blurb
"Blurb’s social features form a smart strategy in an age when electronic media is replacing many printed materials. I imagine this will help the company drive demand for so-called "personal" books, ones created not for profit."
Every Day With Rachel Ray | May 2008
Book Of Love
"For the design enthusiast. Download free Blurb BookSmart software – with templates created by professional book designers – then just drag and drop recipes and photos onto the ages. Get a bestseller-list look for a construction-paper-and-scissors price."
O: The Oprah Magazine | April 2008
Live Your Best Life
"What was once a pastime for mothers recording family memories for their children has blossomed into a new, fertile marketplace of collaboration. People with stories to tell are creating personalized books filled with pictures, blog entries and even business proposals."
Popular Photography Magazine | April 2008
3 ways to make money from your photos
"Try a service such as Blurb book publishing to make souvenir photo books of events or to put your knowledge in print... Then promote and sell your creation on the site’s online storefront. You set the price and pocket the profit."
Vator.tv | March 31, 2008
Blurb rolling out high-end service for photographers
"The San Francisco-based startup is rolling out new services this week targeted at the high-end segment, where customers are more finicky about the quality of images in their books."
Wired | March 24, 2008
Rise of the Instapreneur
"Large brands are starting to see the appeal of manufacturing-as-a-service too. Lexus recently used Blurb to print 1,800 copies of a book promoting the automaker’s green practices."
Inc. Magazine | March 10, 2008
Small company, great service
"I’ve had a terrible customer service experience and a great one. The terrible one, not surprisingly, came from a big, established firm... while the great one came from a relative newcomer, a company called Blurb."
San Francisco Business Times | March 28, 2008
S.F. publishing startup stacks up in Europe
"Drawn by the professional quality and advanced design tools, companies like Lexus and San Francisco consulting firm Stone Yamashita Partners have begun to use Blurb to produce marketing materials. "
Mac Observer | March 24, 2008
Mac Geek Gab: SXSW Recap
"Blurb is similar to iPhoto, but the quality of the books is a whole lot better. Really really cool books, very very high quality, and the samples that they had at the show were great, and they really groked the Mac."
Today Show | March 14, 2008
Today's Travels: Sharing Perfect Pictures
"This is our favorite. If you want to take those photos and make a really fantastic coffee book or a book for your family, take a look at Blurb.com... I know parents and grandparents are especially going to love this. "
Springwise | March 14, 2008
Marketplace for book makers
"BlurbNation is an independent marketplace within Blurb where those skilled at various aspects of custom book-making and those in need of such skills can find each other. BlurbNation is a logical next step in the evolution of Blurb’s business model..."
Gigaom | March 13, 2008
Blurb Wags the Long Tail
"When it comes to user-generated content, Blurb may end up making UGC profitable before YouTube does. Profitability isn’t everything and I’m not sure how Blurb could ever reach more people than YouTube, but it’s nice to talk to an online service that can make money in the here and now."
Reuters | January 31, 2008
Web offers a marketplace for budding Hemingways
"Eileen Gittins launched Blurb.com in 2006 "out of personal pain" after trying to self-publish a photographic tribute to entrepreneurs with whom she had worked. An amateur photographer, Gittins wanted to publish just 50 high-quality books of her photos as gifts but couldn’t find a site that let her to design what she wanted. "The big gap that I saw in the marketplace was for highly visual content (from) people who may never write a manuscript."
Business Week | January 9, 2008
So You Want to Publish That Novel
"I was delighted with how my little 28-page project, Northern Vision, turned out. It’s a real book, complete with a glossy jacket and even a standard book number code. It’s well printed on heavy stock, the photos are faithful to the originals, and it cost me just $29.95 for a single copy."
Associated Press | January 2, 2008
Got a manuscript? Publishing now a snap.
"What makes self-publishing viable is the Internet, which gives writers instant access to audiences that share their same interests, no matter how obscure. "It used to be, if you created a book about an obscure topic, your audience was limited. Now maybe you’re part of an online gardening community, and you already have an audience of 5,000 who care deeply about roses," Gittins said."
JPG Magazine | December 19, 2007
The Project: Blurb
"Your favorite coffee-table can now be graced and filled with books you penned and images you shot. With your choice among the plethora of on-demand book publishing sites out there, you and your friends can now enjoy your work. Blurb is a service I am quick to recommend."
Gawk Magazine | December 19, 2007
Blurb.com
"Thanks to Blurb.com, published authors aren’t the only ones that get to have all the fun anymore. The charming and innovative self-publishing company has now made it possible for the rest of us to write, illustrate and print our own books... at a very affordable price. "
WeddingBee.com | December 11, 2007
Our Honeymoon In Paris: A Blurb Book Review
"The software is very easy to use and there are a large variety of photo design layouts that you can use throughout the book... Overall I’m quite happy with the quality of the Blurb photobook. It’s great for the price you pay for the book and you have a lot of design layouts to choose from. "
Toronto Star | November 29, 2007
Publishing your photos is a snap
"I have searched far and wide to find a printing company that could even come close to what Blurb offers – and I would certainly prefer to buy from a Canadian source that’s closer to my neighbourhood – but I couldn’t. "
