Create, print, and sell professional quality books, magazines, etc. | Blurb

Blurb is your one-stop shop for self publishing professional books, magazines, and more, with user-friendly tools, global distribution, and high-quality book printing services.

Blurb provides creators with various book formats, including photo books, commercial books, and magazines. Each format provides unique features and is tailored to specific types of content.

• Photo books: Perfect for use as art books, cookbooks, travel books, family albums, and portfolios. These high-quality books come in six sizes, photo quality paper, and three cover types.

• Trade books: This format is suitable for novels and poetry collections, as well as children's books and graphic novels. There are four printing options for trade books to balance cost and quality, price reasonably, and print free ISBNs for wider distribution.

• Magazines: These magazines use standard sizes and high-quality paper. The magazine format is very suitable for publishing serialized content, catalogs, work samples, and portfolios for promotion.

How to create your own book using Blurb?

Blurb provides practical design tools and software integration to help you design books. Here is a simple breakdown of creating a book using Blurb:

• Choose book format: There are multiple options, please choose the book format that best suits your content. For example, the photo book format is most suitable for high-quality art books.

• Tool selection: Blurb allows creators to use various tools to create books. You can use BookWright (Blurb's free book design software), or choose the Adobe InDesign plugin, Adobe Lightroom plugin, or Adobe Photoshop plugin (depending on your book format).

• Design your book: After selecting the tool, you can start designing your book. You can use Blurb's customizable templates or design each page yourself. You are completely free to design the overall appearance and feel of the book.

• Editing content: Editing is crucial for creating one's own book. Use high-quality images and organize text to tell stories that attract readers.

• Distribute your books for sale: If you want to sell your books, Blurb offers a variety of promotion and distribution options, including Blurb Bookstore, Amazon, Ingram, and other global online stores. You can print one copy at a time or pre order multiple copies at a lower unit price.