Monthly Archives: February 2008

Blurb’s international Set Your Price program is live

Today is the day that many Blurbarians have been waiting for. If we ship to your country – and we ship to 57 of them – you can now Set Your Price and sell books for a profit in the Blurb Bookstore. Here’s how the program works: You designate the overall price of your books [...]

Book of the Week on ice

I look at Paolo Gianfrancesco’s panoramic images of Iceland and my blood pressure drops 20 points. Who knew books could be this therapeutic. widescreen, icelandic landscapes 01 by Paolo Gianfrancesco. Paolo is an architect in Reykjavík, Iceland. (His name doesn’t sound Nordic because he was born in Italy.) If you want to view more of [...]

Book Metrics for everyone

Anyone enrolled in our Set Your Price program knows about a fun little widget called Metrics. Metrics includes graphs that show how many visitors viewed and purchased your books. The feature has proven to be very popular – so popular that many authors not enrolled in Set Your Price requested access to these graphs. It [...]

Interested in proof books? Take a look and get some tips

Time to prove the whole “a picture is worth a thousand words” thing. Check out the Blurb proof book that Jason Stratton Photography made. Pro photographers use proof books to display all of a client’s images in one bound compilation. This lets the client easily view, select, and order prints. Putting photos into a book [...]