While dismantling the blurb system from the larger issues of legacy publishing would be nearly impossible without an industry-wide agreement to ditch them (spoiler alert: not happening anytime soon), ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blurb, the indie book publishing platform, today announced an easier, smarter book design and distribution service that includes direct Amazon distribution, a new ...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. The publishing industry has a problem, and it goes by a peculiar five-letter name: “blurb.” ...

Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Blurbs have always been controversial—too clichéd, too subject to cronyism—but lately, as review space shrinks and the noise level of the ...

Have you ever designed and ordered a book using Apple’s iPhoto book publishing tool? I have, and they are nice. The quality is quite good and the pricing seems fair value – they make great ...

You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something nice about the pages within? Publishers have long required authors to obtain testimonials or “blubs” from other authors to help their ...

This morning Blurb, a self and micro publishing and marketing platform, unveiled Blurb Bookshow, a free tool for its bookmakers to be able to share and sell their books anywhere online-Facebook, ...

Self-publishing platform Blurb is opening a pop-up space in New York City from October 21 to 31--but it won’t be selling any books at the shop. Instead, the store will host free events and workshops, ...

Photographer Holly Kreuter self-published her book on the annual countercultural arts festival Burning Man in 2002. She spent $14,000 of her own money and went $60,000 in debt, had to do her own ...

“You have 5% of authors who are getting 95% of blurb requests, because there’s no middle class in publishing,” pointed out author and professor Clayton Childress, whose 2017 book Under The Cover ...