Publishing your own professional quality photography book is every photographer’s goal.
To do this for free without any upfront cost is definitely a dream come true!
Blurb is an on demand book printing service offering “bookstore quality” photography books. It is a great service to print your books as they are ordered without investing any money and having an inventory on hand waiting to be sold.
Besides generating income from sales your own book can be a great personal gift for friends and family (for mom of course). Your own high quality photography book goes beyond a professional portfolio, it is an impressive and valuable promotional tool when given to business contacts, i.e. publishers, editors, managers, agents.
There are many possibilities to use these books for all types of photographers i.e. wedding photographers can provide them to clients as part of their package; documentary photographers who for example who follow a music band, fashion photographers can offer books to their designer clients to showcase collections, etc.
Designing And Publishing
The process is simple giving finally a free platform for maximum freedom to express individual style and creativity:
- Download and install the BookSmart software, available for Mac and PC
- Select one of the hundreds of professionally designed layouts
- Drag and drop your images (JPG and PNG files), even import photos from Flickr, Picassa, and SmugMug
- Add your text using any of your own fonts on your computer, import the content of your own blog from Blogger, Live Journal, TypePad or WordPress.com
- Publish meaning upload your book to Blurb
Blurb offers the following book sizes:
- Square - 7×7 inches or 18×18 centimeters
- Standard Landscape - 10×8 inches or 25×20 centimeters
- Standard Portrait - 8×10 inches or 20×25 centimeters
- Large Format Landscape - 13×11 inches or 33×28 centimeters
Blurb books are printed at 300 DPI, these are the pixel specifics for the four book sizes:
- Square 7×7 - Cover 2225 X 2142; Interior pages, full bleed: 2063 X 2067
- Standard Landscape 10×8 - Cover 3038 X 2555; Interior pages, full bleed: 2884 X 2471
- Standard Portrait 8×10 - Cover 2530 X 3080; Interior pages, full bleed: 2363 X 3000
- Large Format Landscape 13×11 - Cover 3955 X 3342; Interior pages, full bleed: 3788 X 3263
All photography books are commercial-quality produced by four-color printing on 80# coated, semi-matte paper. Books can be from 20 to 440 pages.
Book Store Features And Book Promotion
Book store features:
- Book visibility and privacy settings: completely private, by invite-only or viewable by anyone in the public bookstore
- Book Preview is a sneak peek option for visitors to look at the first fifteen pages of your book
- You decide the price of your book therefore your profit on every book by setting the markup
- Ability to view up-to-the-minute sales and profit reports on Blurb
Book promotion:
- Filling out your Author Profile lets others get a personal view of the photographer behind your book
- Specifying subtitles, descriptions, categories, and tags increases your Google search engine rankings
- The Announce feature notifies friends, family and business associates
- Blurb Badge helps promoting your book(s) on your own website or blog
Blurb currently ships to the following countries and territories:
U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the Virgin Islands (U.K. and U.S.).
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