When we first sat down with Entertainment Tonight (ET) anchor Mark Steines in his office on the newly built ET lot in October 2008, we had no idea what to expect. The premise of the meeting was that ET could potentially do some kind of a book project with Blurb and maybe even feature us [...]
Tag Archives: books
A BookSmart Update and Flat-Rate Shipping
October 1, 2009 – 3:14 pm
Today’s a pretty good day to be a Blurbarian. We’ve made a couple changes that we hope will make your bookmaking lives a whole lot easier.
First, we’ve introduced a new flat-rate shipping option, available immediately to customers shipping books to addresses within the U.S, UK, Europe, or Canada. What this means is that within [...]
It’s a BlurbNation
July 15, 2008 – 4:17 pm
If you need a book to showcase your business (or your kids, your wedding, your dog, your trip to the Bahamas … ) and you just don’t have the bandwidth to organize your photos and get everything into a book right now, then you need to contact a BlurbNation professional. These are folks who love [...]
Titles and jackets and flaps, oh my
July 8, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Choosing an image for your book cover may be a snap after yesterday’s blog post, but coming up with a brilliant, compelling title — and jacket copy to match — can be a real challenge. Of course, your title will probably be a direct offshoot of the theme of your book, but the time your [...]
Got it covered? BookSmart cover art
July 7, 2008 – 4:38 pm
While a great cover doesn’t make a great book, it does make a book that’s more likely to be opened. Hey, we spend about 2.5 seconds deciding whether or not to keep looking at a book — and 2.39 of those seconds are spent looking at the front cover. (Yes, I did make up those [...]
BOTW, rodeo-style
May 7, 2008 – 5:15 pm
It could be that we’re stuck in a South by Southwest hangover almost two full months later. It could be that at least one of us has an insatiable love of belt buckles. Maybe I’ve been watching too much late-night ESPN2. Or maybe Jeff Huehn just made a killer book about rodeos and we’re compelled [...]
