Ever dreamed about publishing your own book and becoming a famous author? It's much easier as you think - at least the part about publishing the book... Just use BLURB with its easy to use publishing software. To learn more about that idea, have a look at the interview with Eileen Gittins, realized at PICNINC conference Amsterdam, Netherlands:
The idea of self publishing on demand is not new, there are several other competitors offering more or less similar products such as amazons BOOKSURGE, LULU, MYPHOTOBOOK and BOD. The two last are more focused on the German market.
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- Let's compare them (excluding booksurge as it is only author focused and prices are too high):
- Price: Looking at the price the winners would be LULU and BOD, they offer the best prices of all four. BOD tops it by offering great discounts depending on the quantity of ordered books.
- Quality: Coming to the quality, that is hard too judge, I've seen books of all four and they looked just fine. Maybe LULU failed a little. Question must be more how easy it would be to create the book through the publishing process.
- Handling: BLURB and MYPHOTOBOOK offer a special software which you can download for free. At LULU and BOD you have to create your book online or upload a file.
- Options and services around: If you want to keep it simple having as main interest to publish a beautiful book for yourself, your family and friends or business partners in great quality you will be fine with BLURB and MYPHOTOBOOK which focus on an easy handling. If you are more interested in becoming an author and selling your book through established distribution channels like amazon you should choose LULU or even better BOD, because BOD even offers more publishing services like providing ISBN's, professional lectorate or layout. LULU and BOD also offer a much wider range of book formats.
- Specials: I liked especially the idea of the BLOGBOOK by BLURB. They have a software which imports and maps your blog text, images, comments, and links into professionally designed page layouts. Supporting blogging platforms like Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad and WordPress. After import you can customize and edit your BLOGBOOK as little or as much as you like.
- This interview was realized at PICNIC08. Watch more interviews of that event:
- how to get young adults into charity by having fun: Martin de Ronde about onebiggame.org,
- a blogging tool to enrich your content: zemanta.com - Jure Cuhalev,
- a new conference for young talents under 30: sandbox - Nico Luchsinger and Antoine Verdon,
- first connecting rabbits and then connecting everything: violet.net - Rafi Haladjian,
- mass collaborated creativity worldwide: openad.net - Katarina Skoberne and
- hassle free contacts for everybody: soocial.com - Stefan Fountain.
- Blurb - Doesn't Need VC Lectures
- Lessons Learned: Blurb CEO Eileen Gittins says raising money is like dating
- Blurb CEO Talks People Powered Media (video)
- Build A Book On Facebook With Blurb
- Amazon Muscles Print-On-Demand Services
- Amazon Says It Will Only Sell Print-On-Demand Books That It Gets To Print
So what do you think, shall we give it a try? Eileen gave me a discount voucher valuing 24,95$. I am looking now for somebody who wants to use it for publishing her or his BLOGBOOK or whatever book you like. Only thing I ask is to share your experience with us afterwards. Interested? Just send an message to Viktoria till Thursday 16th.
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