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Publishing - Friday, August 11, 2006

Custom Book Publishing Outfit - Blurb - On Road to Big Round

SF-based Blurb has secured $7.16M of a $13M Series B for its self book-publishing platform. Just like a user can create a calender on Shutterfly, Blurb users get templates that automatically lays out the book pages and lets the designer fill in the photographs and text by cutting and pasting.

Most of the books that we found on Blurb were photo essays. Blurb's costs are not bad. One can build a book less than 40 pages and buy it for just $29.95. The more pages the greater the costs, but there are also bulk discounts.

My Life Starring Boswell - a 25 Page Coffee Table Book - Can Be Had For $29.95

From the book-store reading with Boswell:
Q: What gave you the idea to write a book?
A: At first, I just wanted to make the cats jealous. But then I realized that I had a unique, dogly voice of my own that was just crying out, begging to be heard, as opposed just to begging for leftovers. And I’ve still made the cats jealous.