Three weeks ago I mentioned that Blurb’s eBook service was coming soon. To my delight I got an email yesterday (June 21, 2011) from Ben Clemens, Product Director at Blurb, welcoming me to their eBook Alpha testing. Whoo hoo! I logged in, took this screen shot – I hope Blurb doesn’t mind – and wanted to share this great news with you.
Right now you can only use Blurb’s Bookify service to create your eBook but I assume that’s because it’s easy to convert those books to ebooks. I hope they’re working on being able to convert books made through their BookSmart software into ebooks at some point. I’m just happy to have a way to create ebooks now without having to buy and learn Adobe’s InDesign software.
I’ve never made a book using Bookify but I’m the process of creating a new, simple portfolio type book to test out the new ebook service – I’ll let you know when its complete and share it with you to get your thoughts and feedback. So far the Bookify service seems well laid out with some core features of the Booksmart software. I’ll save the pros and cons for another post.
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I’m very interested in what might develop here, Tyler. I haven’t used Blurb to make my own book yet, but I am fascinated with the possibilities. Looking forward to your thoughts on this new tool.
I’ll be sure to update you on how the process works. So far I’m not overly impressed with Bookify but maybe I’m being too picky. I hope the whole ebook process works out in the end. Good to hear from you.