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How to sell books with email marketing: a guide for self-published bookmakers

Promoting & Marketing

How to sell books with email marketing: a guide for self-published bookmakers

In the dynamic world of self-publishing, one's success often hinges on effectively using a variety of marketing strategies. Email marketing is among the most powerful strategies, providing a way ...

How to make a coffee table book: A 10-step guide to getting started

Planning & Creating

How to make a coffee table book: A 10-step guide to getting started

Crafting a coffee table book is an art form that combines equal aspects of storytelling, visual allure, and production value. Coffee table books are the perfect platform for professional ...

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: The Power of the Email Newsletter

Hit the Books with Dan Milnor: The Power of the Email Newsletter

My journey to newsletters was through blogging. And my journey to the humble blog was circuitous as well. I’m thankful for those journeys, because email newsletters have proved to ...

Will Travel for Food: Behind the Book with McKenna Ganz

Behind the Books

Will Travel for Food: Behind the Book with McKenna Ganz

For McKenna Ganz, exploring new places and celebrating culinary traditions go hand in hand. Her taste for adventure and love of food inspired her to create a fabulous cookbook ...

The Out Mag: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Life in Ireland

Ideas & Examples

The Out Mag: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Life in Ireland

We've always believed in the power of sharing stories to bring individuals and communities together. So when we came across The Out Mag we couldn't wait to find out ...

Behind the Book with Jane Powers

Behind the Books

Behind the Book with Jane Powers

What do delicious drinks and vibrant designs have in common? They both have starring roles in Fruitful: A Book of Unabashedly Fruity Cocktails, by Jane Powers. We love everything ...

From Paintings to Storybooks: A Conversation with Layla Luna

Ideas & Examples

From Paintings to Storybooks: A Conversation with Layla Luna

Take one peek at the cover of Lolly & Oliver, and you’ll be ready to follow your new storybook friends on an ocean adventure, into outer space—or just about ...

UNUSUALLY cute. Behind the Book with Zoe Sidhom

Behind the Books

UNUSUALLY cute. Behind the Book with Zoe Sidhom

For her architectural thesis project, Zoe Sidhom printed a truly original book that puts her design skills, knowledge, and research on center stage. It’s called UNUSUALLY cute. and we ...

5 Photographers to Follow

5 Photographers to Follow

When I was first asked to write this post, a cascade of faces and names began to flow through my mind, as did a level of excitement I’ve not ...

Photo Books to Journals: Q&A with Dan Milnor

Photo Books to Journals: Q&A with Dan Milnor

Whether you’re starting a new creative project or planning your next career moves, it helps to get perspective from a professional. In our latest webinar series, Blurb Creative Evangelist ...

What is typography and why is it important?

Planning & Creating

What is typography and why is it important?

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line ...

How to Mix Photography and Illustration

Planning & Creating

How to Mix Photography and Illustration

The creative world is a wonderful world, but it is one in which participants are under pressure to conform, at least to some degree. You might think this is ...

How to Write a Non-Fiction Book

Planning & Creating

How to Write a Non-Fiction Book

You know you have a book in you, but maybe you’re struggling with knowing how to start or how to get it done—maybe this is your first time writing ...

Travelling in Style: Layflat with Liz Kamarul

Ideas & Examples

Travelling in Style: Layflat with Liz Kamarul

Liz Kamarul hit the road in a refurbished RV to travel across the United States. A stylist with a beautiful social media presence, we caught up with Liz to ...

Making a great travel book: tips from 4 photographers

Making a great travel book: tips from 4 photographers

What makes a great travel book? It’s not just the location or the camera. A superior travel book is one part photographer’s eye, one part careful curation and editing, ...

Talking Cuba and Cyanotypes with Photographer Allan Jenkins

Talking Cuba and Cyanotypes with Photographer Allan Jenkins

Allan Jenkins’ work combines the best of traditional and modern techniques. For example, his Victorian-era cyanotype prints are created from digital negatives and his self-published print books are based ...

Blurb to Amazon— Sell Your Book on Amazon

Self-Publishing

Blurb to Amazon— Sell Your Book on Amazon

Here at Blurb, we’ve always taken pride in empowering anyone to create and self-publish a beautiful book. But did you know, you can also sell your photo book on Amazon? Harness ...

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