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By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search since 2004

Self-Publish Your Blog With Blurb

Thursday March 2, 2006
If you have a blog and would like to read it as a book, then your day is coming. Via the New York Times, there's a new service coming this month called Blurb, a self-publishing site. More from the Times:
"Though not all blogs may aspire to literary permanence, they can achieve it through the new Book-Smart software from Blurb, a publish-your-own-book service. The software, which is expected to be available free later this month at www.blurb.com, features a "Slurper" tool that automatically downloads and reformats the contents of a Web log into a book that bloggers and their admirers can purchase online."
Of course it's not free, with prices ranging from $29.95 and up, but it's an interesting idea. After all, everyone's an author (or at least an aspiring one).

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Comments
October 2, 2008 at 3:50 am
(1) Aldhis says:

Hi, I’m interested with this Blurb. My blog itself contain many short stories that meant to share with others. It will be very nice if I could publish it on a book.
Can we sell the book we publish by online store? What is the cost of creating 1 book?

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