Monthly Archives: June 2007

The Blurb anniversary party: A space odyssey

June 29, 2007 – 2:51 pm

The Blurberati are not afraid to let their hair down, but some parties are bigger/louder/hotter than others. Last night, we celebrated Blurb, BookSmart, and our first year of bookmaking. We gathered some friends to join us and headed over to Space where cocktails were renamed for assorted employees and The Loyd Family Players shook the [...]

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Book of the Week is one in a series on the Windy City

June 28, 2007 – 4:54 pm

Ryan Muir sees the beauty in Chicago. Even though he was only there for five days this past May, during that time he took some pretty stunning pictures. So much so, that he is in the process of creating a series of five photography books on the Windy City. In our Book of the Week, [...]

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Woohoo! Blurb and Flickr are teaming up!

June 27, 2007 – 1:22 pm

Blurb and Flickr have partnered to make it even easier to create fantastic, bookstore-quality books from your Flickr sets and photo streams. As of today, all you Flickr folk can find us directly under the Do More section on Flickr. Go ahead and use the amazing Flickr Slurper to automatically import the high-resolution version of [...]

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Get your classic lit from a vending machine

June 26, 2007 – 5:26 pm

Chips. Chocolate and gum. Cans of soda. iPods. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. All vending machine items you’ll find in New York City. The last one, Mark Twain’s book, is actually printed on the spot via a 1,660-pound, Internet-connected bookmaking ATM-thing, also known as the Espresso Book Machine. It’s about to make its debut at [...]

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