I took a lot of photos on the threeweek trip, and wanted to have a hardcopy photo book for myself, and for my parents and siblings who holidayed with us. However, this task typically comes just when youre at your least able. The newest version of blurb booksmart includes features such as twopage spread layouts, templates for planners and notebooks, as well as. Blurb booksmart can be used for any book, from family histories up to portfolios, with personal page layouts and designs. Discover how to make an ebook with blurbs ebook creator software. Without having a description that really draws in readers, your ebook will be destined to fail. Please type your blurb in ms or open office word, print it, and bring it to class on thursday. Design and publish beautiful photo books, trade books, ebooks, and more. Your book blurb aka online description, like your dating profile, has to be engaging and alluring to attract passersby. Blurb is a creative platform and community that enables and encourages people to make books of the things they love. Many authors write the book blurb as an afterthought.
Photographer jonathan saunders found out like most people i know weve covered this ground before that blurb books are completely hitormiss in the quality of the final product. Blurb tutorial how to publish a book in ebook, hardcover. With blurb, you can create a professional portfolio book to showcase your most accomplished work. Oct 02, 2012 blurb s awardwinning book creation tools enable customers to create enhanced ebooks with video, audio and live links once then publish to print or enhanced ebook format quickly and seamlessly. Its got many options for creating a book, publishing the book and even printing various sizes of paper books. Your book blurb aka online description, like your dating profile. Some of our customers attended the schoolhouse as pupils and now enjoy its renovated environment without fear of homework or detentions. Writing a short book blurb is not only fun, but great practice for writing promotional copy of any kind. And im going to do this in a couple of different ways. Bookwright formerly booksmart adobe indesign plugin.
If you ordered a digital book from blurb whether a pdf or an ebook follow the steps below to download and view it on your computer or. Writing a book blurb is harder than you think, and is an excellent way of getting yourself noticed. Editing is an important part of the publishing process, but it can be confusing, especially to new authors. Novel starter template guides flourish fonts introduction flourish fonts guide preparing your content formatting chapter text front matter styling. Abstract the purpose of this paper is to present a preliminary approach to the study of blurbs, brief texts traditionally displayed on bookcovers, and nowadays also on the internet, which provide. The above amazon book description generator will help you to create those beautiful descriptions with just a couple of clicks of a button. Oct 16, 2014 writing the blurb for your selfpublished book is one of the privileges of being an indie author. The divi blurb module elegant themes documentation. Blurbs awardwinning book creation tools enable customers to create enhanced ebooks with video, audio and live links once then publish to print. Our systems run an automatic check, called a preflight check, on your uploaded file to make. Starting a new book in booksmart is pretty straightforward because the programgives you a lot of guidance. This article gives you simple steps to follow to write a book blurb, and gives examples of both fiction and nonfiction back cover blurbs.
I cant read on a laptop on the lawn in the backyard cause the sun glare makes it hard to read the screen not a problem with an ebook reader because of the special screen technology. But fear not, because theres a secret science to writing the perfect book blurb. If youd rather create a blurb book using the full range of professional design and production capabilities in adobe indesign, the blurb book creator plugin may be for you. The schoolhouse is located at 2 victoria street gerringong, opposite 2cronins hotel in belinda street. Join nigel french for an indepth discussion in this video creating the cover using the blurb book creator plugin, part of designing a book 20 join nigel french for an indepth discussion in this video creating the cover using the blurb book creator plugin, part of designing a book 20. Writing the blurb for your selfpublished book is one of the privileges of being an indie author.
Once youve taken in all of the above and gotten a feel for the promise you want to make to the reader, use the outlines below to write your book cover blurb. In august 2010, blurb was announced as 2010 aop open award winner. Put simply, being concise is hard, and being concise about something you know insideandout can seem downright impossible. Blurb is the cuttingedge place to publish your book. The schoolhouse is located at 2 victoria street gerringong, opposite cronins hotel in belinda street. You might have caught oprah raving about the amazon kindle. Nov 05, 2012 blurb booksmart can be used for any book, from family histories up to portfolios, with personal page layouts and designs. It may be written by the author or publisher or quote praise from others. You have one shot at introducing your story to your reader make it count. Blurb bookwright guide quick font tips all ebooks require special licensing for fonts. For help with printing, pricing, ordering, and other blurb issues, visit blurb. For christmas this year, the only thing i could think of that i really, really wanted was an ebook reader.
If you are planning a promotion where your book is discounted or. Blurb provides all the tools you need to custom publish your own bookstorequality books, rich with fullcolor pictures or crisply reproduced black and white photographs, sharp line drawings, and original typography. They provide their free writing and formatting software, bookwright, on their site and. Its not very comfortable to lie in bed and read on a laptop. Sell your ebook in the blurb bookstore go to your dashboard and click the sell my book button beside the ebook you want to sell. Youve snagged a prospective date by your alluring cover, so now youve got to show theres more than just surface appeal. A book blurb should be a fair representation of the style of the book. The 5 core elements of a book blurb and why you should. After a family holiday to holland a couple of years ago, we had a photo book printed by blurb. If you are founding a company, and hiring freelancers, and getting an isbn block from your national isbn agency, then thats selfpublishing. Create a book, turn it into an ebook, and add video, audio, and links. How to add, configure and customize the divi blurb module.
A blurb is the book description you find on the back of a book or online to describe a books contents. You must make your selfdescription blurb as interesting. Oct 28, 2009 wednesday, 28th of october write your own selfintroduction blurb. Youve just finished your beautiful book and are ready to print. How to download and view your digital book help center blurb. Sign in help center english us deutsch espanol francais italiano nederlands portugues do brasil. After the breakout success of her first book of poems mountain climber, poet june smith returns with an even more enduring tale of love and loss.
Blurbs are a great way to showcase small bits of important information, and are often used in rows to display skills or features. Design your books, both printed and electronic, and publish them via blurb. Go to your dashboard and click the sell my book button beside the ebook you want to sell change the setting from not listed for sale to invite only or publicly available depending on your preference next, scroll down and edit the fields for book description, category, language and price. Our portfolio photo book maker helps you customize and organize anything from art school drawings. Youll also find some useful links to websites with further information. It is a 2page spread with 5 photos on it and has a quite a lengthy page caption. Much of this can be chalked up to blurb trying to find the point where.
Next, scroll down and edit the fields for book description, category, language and price. In journeying to june, the poet dives deeper into her childhood, imagining a world that mightve existing during the moment of her birth in 1982. Weve gone ahead and licensed 50 ebook compatible fonts for you to use. Kim bookless on editing for selfpublishers by blurb books published on 20141017t06. Blurb recommends a minimum of 200 dpi for optimum quality. Chuck arand from concordia seminary for making time to talk about my book. George schaub jul 5, 2011 for the past few months i have been slowly cataloging prints ive made over the past years. A blurb is a brief summary of your life and work experience. Chose from several free tools or use adobe indesign or adobe lightroom. How to write a best selling book blurb udemy download free tutorial video a proven step by step formula to writing book blurbs that supercharge your sales.
A blurb is a short promotional piece accompanying a piece of creative work. How to sell to your ebook on blurb or the apple ibookstore help. Blurb is an american selfpublishing platform that enables their users to create, selfpublish, promote, share, and sell their own print and ebooks. Blurbs free bookmaking tools now output rich media ebooks in. Lets turn our attention now to designing the cover for our book.
Blurb is a bookmaking platform and creative community that enables individuals to create, publish, share, and sell highquality photo books, trade books. Creating the cover using the blurb book creator plugin. Blurb, though usually known for their excellent photo album printing service, has recently started to reach out to selfpublishing writers and now prints traditional paperbacks as well. I decided the easiest way to maintain and expand the list as i continued cataloging would be a blog. Blurb books are printed digitally and ondemand, so many of our processes our automated.
Since blurb just launched their new lay flat books, i thought i would compare it to its biggest competitor, mixbook. The blurb book publishing service provides several tools for you to design your own selfpublished book, but you may feel that those tools are limited. A few days ago, i received my discounted copy of my latest book from blurb. Create, print, and sell professionalquality photo books, magazines, trade books, and ebooks with blurb. In april 2008, blurb was nominated for a 2008 webby award. Blurbs free bookmaking tools now output rich media ebooks. We follow the author has she weaves stories of love and childhood kisses, with. With our digital printondemand services, you can create books that meet your exacting standards. Easily design and share an ebook for amazon kindle fire, apple ipad, android, and. Blurb create, print, and sell professionalquality photo.
Download blurb s free desktop software to create beautiful books, magazines, and ebooks. Change the setting from not listed for sale to invite only or publicly available depending on your preference. Feb 19, 2014 blurb is the cuttingedge place to publish your book. Wednesday, 28th of october write your own selfintroduction blurb.
The blurb module is a simple and elegant combination of text and imagery. Avoid this alltocommon pitfall by taking jasmines awesome course. The newest version of blurb booksmart includes features such as twopage spread layouts, templates for planners and notebooks, as well as ebook friendly and fully licensed fonts. Go to your dashboard and click the sell my book button beside the ebook you want to sell. There are reasons to use a pay to publish company, instead of selfpublishing. If you havent already downloaded and installed the free booksmart software from, do that now by going to the apps tab on the homepage and choosingblurb booksmart. How is it that a writer can write a story spanning tens of thousands of words but stumble at a 250300 word book blurb describing it. I had my heart set on the sony prs505, and i was lucky enough to find one of these shiny gadgets under the christmas tree on christmas morning there are a number of ebook readers on the market. We now offer visitors to the authorsociety website the opportunity to get their books featured at a discounted price. Winter is over, the season that around here, with all the winter salting of the roads, leaves us just fantasiz. I have been trying for days and still unsuccessful. How to write a killer blurb that convinces readers to buy your book the book blurb is your sales pitch. Starting a new book bookwright allows you to create an ebook and a print book, all from one file. The blurb of your book is the second thing a potential reader will look at after the coverso take the time to get it right.
Blurb now gives you the tools to create richmedia ebooks for the apple ipad. Thanks to the programming side of the kindlepreneur team, weve created a book description generator that anyone can use, without having to know html. Ebook creator software easy online ebook maker blurb. One using the blurb book creator plugin and then one just doing it from scratch within indesign.
Blurb modules can be placed in any column that you create. Most run several paragraphs, but some publishers want them shorter or in a special format so be sure to check with your publishers guidelines before you begin work. Jul 05, 2011 blog to book eventually settles into the standard blurb bookmaking software routine, where you can move content, swap around images, play with facing pages, choose numerous layout and text combinations, etc. Jul 19, 20 writing a book blurb is a little like online dating, i suppose. Blurb allows its customers to use different software to make their own book. Blurb booksmart is a free application with which you can make an entire book manually or using the assistant tool. The first 50 fonts under that are under ebook friendly are the ones listed to the left.
Our sister website sends out a daily newsletter with ebook deals to more than,000 subscribers. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dustjacket of a book, and are now found on web portals and news websites. Ebook price limits how to download and view your digital book upgrade your ebook file to support kindle, android and ipad epub3. The 5 core elements of a book blurb and why you should know. This entails signing, dating and numbering the prints and then making an index. We asked editor and publishing consultant kim bookless to talk about the editing process, why every writer needs a good editor, and how selfpublishers can get the most out of the editing experience. Once your title and cover have drawn the reader in, the blurb is what is going to make the difference between a missed opportunity and a sale. I have problems trying to upload my 224 pages large landscape book to blurb. Thanks to dale ward and the rest of the tech guys at the seminary for maki.
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