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Jun 17 2008

Photo Book Publishers

Posted by jeff in Photo Books

Many thanks to everyone that responded to yesterday’s post about photo book publishing.  I received some great feedback that spoke highly of the Mpix service I wrote about as well as some suggestions for a few others.  In the coming days I will try an review several of the services to help you (and me) decide which is the best option for printing a photo book.  I will begin tomorrow with the fairly new Blurb printing service which was highly recommended by several readers.  I will also take a look at LuLu, MyPublisher, VioVio, and iPhoto.  If you can think of any others along the way, please pass them along for consideration.

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  1. John T. says:
    June 17, 2008 at 7:50 am

    You may want to check out SharedInk.com, they put out a pretty nice product.

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  2. Mike C says:
    June 17, 2008 at 11:45 am

    What about ChromeDigitalPress.com especially for DC area.

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  3. JoBu says:
    June 17, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Outstanding. I was planning to make a photobook or 2 from my wedding photos. I can’t wait to hear your take on these services.

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  4. Gloria Golden says:
    July 14, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    My black and white photos for a book.

    Some of my early photos were printed in the dark room, and I have slides taken of those images. Can I send you a combination of slides and digital photos (taken when I began digital photography) on a CD? Will you be doing offset printing?

    Thanks.

    Gloria Golden

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  5. digital book says:
    July 23, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Thanks for all jeff

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  6. Jasmin says:
    October 13, 2008 at 8:31 am

    You should try SmileBooks (www.smilebooks.com). I am really impressed with their quality. I ordered photo books from other online services before and this was by far the best one. No more grainy pictures and falling out pages anymore. Their software is very flexible and easy to use. With the assistant you can create your book in 5 minutes. You don’t need to upload pictures, which is very time saving. You can browse your pictures directly from your computer. If you want you can change anything you want. The layouts and covers are fully customizable. What I really liked that you can add, move, resize, and rotate picture and text boxes very easily. They have tons of backgrounds to choose from and you can also use your own pictures as backgrounds on single or double pages.

    Pricing is reasonable too. They have four sizes:
    -Pocket (5.5×5″) : From $9.95
    -Mini (8×8″): From $16.95
    -Classic (8×11″): From $19.95
    -Deluxe (12×12″): $68.95

    They have a 30% voucher on their Facebook fan site (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/SmileBooks/42040218000?ref=ts) at the moment. The code is SB30.

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  7. jeff says:
    October 13, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Thanks for the heads up Jasmin. I did need to add that the SmileBooks software is not Mac compliant so you can only build books on a Windows computer.

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  8. jack lane says:
    November 12, 2008 at 10:28 am

    My Publisher is a well designed and easy to use program with a wide variety of page options. When they have a promotion, the prices are very attractive. And the turn-around time is remarkable. Blurb, on the other hand has a frustratingly limited layout selection, a remarkably time- consuming creating process and clumsy operations. I-Photo is very good all-around but more expensive. My Publisher for some strange reason doesn’t offer printing on the back or flaps of its book jackets.

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  9. Jules says:
    November 17, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    I’ve been searching for a supplier of high quality professional photobooks. Have tried photobox, blurb and upon searching and more searching, bookedimages.com sound very good. They’re based in the UK. They don’t seem to advertise their price, but if its reasonable, that’s who I’m going to try next.

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  10. Blake says:
    March 16, 2009 at 8:48 am

    I’ve used http://www.familymemories.com/ photo book software to create 5 books – the quality of the printing is amazing and I would fully recommend them for creating a coffee table book, wedding book, family photo book or whatever. Great stuff! Worth a good look when planning your photobook project.

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  11. Jana says:
    April 30, 2009 at 9:29 am

    Try shutterfly.com It’s very user friendly, and the finished products are beautiful!!!!

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