Current news stories from the independent book industry
Blurb to Distribute to Amazon
BGood news for photographers. Before, Blurb was more of a boutique press – you’d have to send customers to Blurb to purchase a book. Less like publishing, and more like gift-making. Now Blurb is opening it up to self-publish photo books on Amazon, no matter how many copies are sold. Photo books are so expensive to print with a big print run – not to mention distribute – that this will open up self-publishing’s possibilities to a new crop of creators.
Via the Telegraph:
[…]Although Amazon has sold self-published books before, this is the first time that the retailer