Seasons Greetings Fellow Blurberati,
Those of you who have not been following the mainstream book publishing business may be unaware that the industry has been hit hard in recent weeks.
Wednesday, 3 December has become known as Black Wednesday as Random House folded five divisions into three, eliminating the jobs of two top editors (with more layoffs [...]
Author Archives: Eileen
Books are Dead… Long Live the Book!… (v.2.0)
December 31, 2008 – 12:38 pm
More on pricing from the CEO
May 14, 2008 – 4:24 pm
Many thanks to the thousands of you who have already ordered our new ImageWrap books! We’ve seen the first ones come off the line and they look spectacular; we hope you like them, too.
Since there have been several comments on my last post, I want to weigh in on our recent price increase. By the [...]
An update from the CEO on good stuff in the works
May 5, 2008 – 11:27 am
In a little less than 24 months, hundreds of thousands of you have chosen Blurb to make almost half a million books. Many of you are also sharing and selling your books in our bookstore, and making money. We’re blown away by the quality of your images, the stories you tell, and the creativity of [...]
Once More, With Feeling
December 31, 2007 – 5:54 pm
I cannot believe I get paid to do this. I am so lucky — really, I pinch myself. Every day I get to look at books that represent the best in people: their best recipes, best writing, best photographs, best artwork, best aspirations, best intentions.
I often look at new books coming across our server in [...]
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 [...]
Who knew? A Techno-Shaman at Blurb
March 25, 2007 – 7:56 pm
Who knew we had a techno-shaman in our midst? I kid you not. Our resident IT genius, otherwise known as The Doktor, came out to my house this am to fix my completely wacked email service/client/network/whatever. He pulled out his voodoo stick and started shaking it around my laptop. I kid [...]
An Astonishing 2006
January 1, 2007 – 1:17 pm
Exactly one year ago we were on the brink of “launching” at the DEMO Conference.
Our beta software was fragile (at best) and we were to be the first software company to present on stage in front of 700 people. We were more than a little terrified — but after draft number 12 of our presentation, [...]
