Blurb Introduces Author-Set Pricing.Book Creation Service's Set Your Price Program Allows Users to Set Book Prices, Keep All Profits SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Blurb blurb n. A brief publicity notice, as on a book jacket. [Coined by Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), American humorist.] blurb v. , the creative book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. service, today announced the availability of its Set Your Price program, an end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that enables Blurb users to create and sell books for profit. The program allows Blurb authors to sell their books in Blurb's online bookstore at a price of their choosing, while keeping 100 percent of the profits. Unlike other programs that either pay royalties or levy charges, Blurb's Set Your Price program truly enables the book creator to retain all of the profits. "Blurb's mission is to democratize de·moc·ra·tize tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es To make democratic. de·moc publishing. I can't imagine a better way to deliver on that promise than by tearing down the arcane ar·cane adj. Known or understood by only a few: arcane economic theories. See Synonyms at mysterious. [Latin arc systems where everyone but the author seems to get a nice payday," said Eileen Gittins, Blurb's founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Many Blurb users are already selling their books at a profit offline, so the natural next step is to help them transfer that effort online." With the Set Your Price program, there is neither inventory to manage, nor cash outlays Outlays Payments on obligations in the form of cash, checks, the issuance of bonds or notes, or the maturing of interest coupons. for print production as each book is printed on demand. Blurb users can market and sell books through Blurb's Bookstore, and drive sales by linking from a personal Web site or blog. Users can track book sales using real-time reporting, and Blurb sends the user a check each month, as long as their earnings reach at least $25. There are no enrollment fees and it takes two minutes to sign up. Blurb is rolling out free online-marketing tools to help customers drive sales, including the following: * A book detail page that features a cover image and description of the book, optimized for search engines * A book preview option that gives prospective book buyers a look at the first 15 pages of a book in a view-only PDF file See PDF. * An "Announce" feature that let users invite others to view and purchase their book * Book tagging and categorization options that provide more exposure in Blurb's public bookstore Also, today at Macworld, Blurb is previewing its new iPhoto integration - users can now slurp high-resolution photo albums, rolls, or individual images directly from iPhoto into BookSmart, and either auto-flow or build a book from scratch. This functionality will be widely released in early February. Blurb's BookSmart software is free, runs on a Mac or PC, and offers a wide variety of templates created by commercial book designers. The software enables anyone to create, share, and distribute affordable, beautiful, bookstore-quality books. About Blurb Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb's creative publishing service is simple and smart enough to make anyone an author -- every blogger, cook, marketer, photographer, traveler, entrepreneur, poet, everyone. Founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005 and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners, Blurb is bringing book publishing to the masses. Blurb's free BookSmart[TM] software runs on a Mac or PC; users pay only when they publish their books. The software is available for download at www.blurb.com. iPhoto is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. |
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