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Mixbook - design custom books with your friends online
Mixbook is a new beta application where you can invite your friends to build books together online that can be shared as widgets on your blog/MySpace/Facebook or ordered as professionally-printed books. The concept has infinite applications from birthdays, reunions, weddings, memorials, diaries, corporate events, vacations, pets, family holidays, and so forth and so on. This is a great way for you to get everyone's photos of a certain event or subject, together in one place.
The book creator template couldn't be easier to use. Mixbook walks you through each step where you can customize your book's pages with unique layouts, text, backgrounds and of course, your photos. If you're a Mac user, Mixbook is similar to iPhoto, but with the added feature of collaborating with your friends online.
When you begin to create your Mixbook, you are prompted to invite your friends to help you and can add their email addresses if you wish. On the Publish page, you can select who can view and order your book. At this stage, you can allow the entire Mixbook community to comment and rate your book, or only the people you allow.
If you wish to have your book professionally printed, they come as 8x8 soft cover books, bound and delivered to you with a 100% return guarantee (within 14 days). They are printed by the same company that prints for Snapfish, Walgreens, Costco and Wal-Mart.
Prices start at $12.99 for a 20 page book and go up from there. A promotion is running through July 31, where the 20 page book can be had for $9.99.
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