Turn your blog into a book with Blurb

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Turn your blog into a book with Blurb

by Brad Linder Nov 4th 2007

If you've ever thought it would be nice to take some time out from writing your personal blog to write the great American novel, it turns out your blog could be the next big thing in the book world.

Blurb is a website that lets you publish all sorts of content as a paperback or hardcover book. While there are plenty of other services out there that let you self-publish photo albums and cookbooks, Blurb offers some nice features for converting your blog into a book.

For example, Blurb can import data from Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad and WordPress blogs. You can customize the look and feel of your book online before ordering a printed copy. Prices start at $12.95 for a 40 page paperback book at $22.95 for a 40 page hardcover. Of course, if you're like most bloggers we know, 40 pages will only cover a couple of weeks worth of posts at best. Fortunately you can order books up to 440 pages. But that will set you back a bit more money, with prices for 400+ page books starting at $65.95 and going well over $150 if you want each page to be larger than 7 inches by 7 inches.

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Tags: blurb, books, self-publishing

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jonas said 7:21AM on 11-05-2007

You can also turn your blog into a newspaper style PDF by using the free services at http://www.feedjournal.com

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