Thanks to my colleague Anouk, I’ve recently discovered a new online service: book printing. The concept itself is not new: you download book making software, you fill your book offline, and then upload everything; order, wait a few days, and bingo, your new book arrives in the mail.

But blurb.com is different: this is the first book printing service where you can create any kind of book, not just the typical photobooks. And Blurb does a great job: the books are finished by professional book binders, either in a hard or soft cover. Hard cover books come in 2 types: either with a glossy printed wrap to protect to black cloth cover, or with the cover illustration directly printed on the matte finished cover.

The printing quality is excellent, the choice of paper really suits my taste and it all feels so “look, I’ve published a book”-like!

All books are publicly available should you want to sell them online: you set the price and collect the profit.

I’ve made two books thus far: one 20 pages small soft cover catalogue of my series “Touch”, and a 92 pages large landscape photo book of Berlin.

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