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Blurb Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	Incorporated 2005
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA, USA
Key people	Eileen Gittins, CEO
Industry	Computer software
Products	BookSmart
Employees	unknown
Website	www.blurb.com

1 Blurb, Inc.
- 1.1 Blurb BookSmart
- 1.2 Beta launch
2 See also
3 External links
4 Media mentions of Blurb and BookSmart

[edit] Blurb, Inc.

Blurb, Inc. is a publishing service for the general public that makes it possible for anyone to create, publish, share and market printed books. The books, which can be printed in full-color with a hard or soft cover, are professional quality and comparable to books sold in actual bookstores.

The company was founded in 2004 by Eileen Gittins and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Blurb’s headquarters are located in San Francisco, California.

[edit] Blurb BookSmart

To make a book with Blurb, users download the company’s free BookSmart bookmaking software, which turns blogs, business plans, recipes, photos, email, Flickr sets, iPhoto albums, wikis, or any other content into a bookstore-quality book. BookSmart allows users to drag and drop pictures and text into professional looking book templates. Each book is then printed on demand, allowing people to produce one or many books depending on their needs. BookSmart runs on Windows 2000 or XP, and on Mac OS X. Blurb’s beta version of BookSmart first became available to the public in May 2006.

[edit] Beta launch

Blurb’s Beta version of BookSmart was premiered at the 2006 DEMO consumer technology conference in February 2006. Nearly 10,000 individuals signed up to receive BookSmart while the software was still in its beta-testing phase. Time Magazine named Blurb one of 2006’s “50 Coolest Web Sites,” and the service has been featured in the New York Times, Wired News, USA Today, and elsewhere.