Category Archives: Random Goodness

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Holiday Goodness from our Partners

It’s time to harness your inspiration and channel your creative vision — the holidays are here, and we’ve got some killer deals from our partners that you’ll want to jump on.

Take 10% off MOO Stickerbooks and MOO Minicards this holiday season. Upload your photos or designs and create 100 unique cards — great for [...]

Marketing Your Book Doesn’t Have to be this Hard

Check out this humorous piece by Ellis Weiner in the New Yorker. A great lampoon of the publishing industry, it features an editor’s misguided advice on getting your book noticed. “Reddit bites,“ “Google scaffold,” and “FB/MS interlink torrent” anyone?
Oh yeah, and by the way, in this piece, the editor has moved all of [...]

Meet Supermarket

Blurb recently got our design on at the AIGA Make | Think conference in Memphis. We had a booth, hosted a meet-up, and generally rocked Beale Street all week long. Our people had a great time, and we have a video we’ll post later this week to help bring the experience home.
We met a [...]

Australia Dust Storm Creates Spectacular Imagery

Last week a dust storm blanketed eastern Australia, including Sydney, and significantly disrupted the city’s infrastructure while putting health officials on high alert. (It’s unknown how red dust affects book shipping.) The official explanation is “during winter in Australia low pressure storms are generated in the Indian and Southern Oceans, whipping up huge seas and [...]

Unputdownable

Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in Malasia came up with these great ads for Penguin Books. It’s true - a great novel really is “unputdownable!”
(via ads of the world)

Vending Machine of Books!

The Lending Library is a vending machine of sorts for books. Simply swipe your library card and borrow one of the stocked titles - great for late night book runs!
(via the 26th story)

Book. Animated.

book animation from Ian Hammond on Vimeo.