Blurb Introduces New Premium Services, Increases File Upload Speed 2-to-3 Times Faster.Photographers and Other Creative Professionals Can Now Custom-Brand, Design, Print, and Market Bookstore-Quality Books in Record Time 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 & LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- 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 Blurb BookSmart[TM] beta release See beta version. version 1.7.7. Launched to coincide with the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International show in Las Vegas, this latest release introduces a collection of tools to further enhance and customize the book design process. Professional users will now be able to create books with their own unique branding, and easily market and sell books with fully automated Blurb Badges. Blurb has also improved the time it takes to upload a finished book file, increasing the speed 2-to-3 times faster than before. "This BookSmart upgrade is really all about the professional photography market," 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. . "Professionals are some of our most vocal supporters and we have taken their suggestions to heart. In less than two months we built a new workflow and software upgrade to arm creative professionals with the ability to better design, brand, and market their books. Not to mention, they'll save production time because uploading books is now twice as fast, or more." To create a Blurb book, users start by downloading free Blurb BookSmart[TM] software. The latest version - Blurb BookSmart[TM] 1.7.7 - includes the following new additions: * Custom Logo Upgrade - This option allows creative professionals to insert their own logos into the books or go logo-free. Blurb's Custom Logo Upgrade is a premium service introduced in response to demand from professional photographers, who will now be able to insert their own branding into Blurb books. Custom Logo Upgrade is available for an additional fee under an alternative pricing schedule. * Image Container Tool Tips - These tips appear as pop-ups when users mouse over image containers. The tips recommend pixel dimensions for images and the printed output size, which makes it easier to create high quality composite images. * Blurb Badges - These free marketing widgets feature an image of the book cover that can be embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in any blog or Web site. These badges enable one-click access to where the book is sold in the Blurb Bookstore. Blurb manages all order processing and fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. , and Blurb's Set Your Price program lets authors keep 100% of any mark-up on their book. Additionally, Blurb has recently announced two new book sizes: large format landscape 13x11 and square 7x7. These new book sizes are particularly useful in the wedding and portrait categories, and at only $12.95 for a 40-page, full-color 7x7 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. book, they offer an affordable, bookstore-quality portfolio or brochure option. Customers can buy just one, or many books; discounts apply at 25 copies or more. 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 anthem [ultimately from antiphon], short nonliturgical choral composition used in Protestant services, usually accompanied and having an English text. The term is used in a broader sense for "national anthems" and for the Latin motets still used occasionally in 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. |
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