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Blurb Can Make You An Author

By on March 22, 2006 in Ideas

Chuck Huckaby:

Well, actually YOU have to do the writing, but Blurb can publish your book on demand. Here’s how they’re trying to reinvent publishing.

$30? Amazing. Most “self-publishing� packages I’ve seen run even higher than the $300 quoted here. A good package with decent services can easily run $1500.

They used to say “freedom of the press was great if you can own the press�… here, for $30, you can at least “rent the press� and get your voice heard.

And there’s something about being a “published authorâ€? – even self-published – that carries some clout.

Read more in the SF Business Times.

Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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