Blurb, the on-demand print service with a specialization in photographic layouts, is expanding its “crowd sourcing” strategy onto, where else, but Facebook with a new app that brings people together ...

A Series Of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape. Did someone say that print is dead? Nonsense, contends Eileen Gittins. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur is ...

Rumour has it that when Robert Frost was once asked, “What’s your poem about?”, he replied, “Read it.” Not everyone has the luxury of being Robert Frost, though. By which I mean that books need blurbs ...

Blurb is an affordable printing service that allows you to produce your own high-quality photo books. Offering a wide range of sizes, from a Lilliputian 13 x 13cm to a colossal 33 x 28cm, five kinds ...

The publishing industry could look different in the future — the culprit: shifting thoughts toward book blurbs. If you have held a book before, most likely you have read or at least seen one. They ...

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Whatever the old adage might warn, there is a bit of merit to judging a book by its cover — if only in one respect. Consider the blurb, one of the most pervasive, longest-running — and, at times, ...

I’m hardly a stranger to the best photo book services. Not only have I reviewed multiple photo book services first hand, but I created TechRadar’s testing process, and I head up the team that reviews ...

Folks, it’s time to talk about blurbs. You know blurbs, the choice little quotations from other writers or public figures touting the excellence of the book you are considering purchasing. They are ...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. The publishing industry has a problem, and it goes by a peculiar five-letter name: “blurb.” ...