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Blurb, Inc.
Blurb BookSmart™
- Conference
- DEMO 06
- Market Segment
- Consumer service
- Funding Details
- $2.05 million Series A led by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Capital.
- Competitors
- No direct competitors. Secondary competitors include Lulu and MyPublisher.
- Product Description
- Blurb BookSmart™ puts a professional press and global distribution in the hands of every blogger, marketer, traveler, chef, photographer, consultant, family historian, online community — in fact, everyone. Blurb democratizes publishing with BookSmart, a platform that features professional authoring templates plus a print-on-demand engine, community content library and online marketplace. Blurb gives individuals and groups the ability to create, publish and market bookstore-quality books affordably, in quantities ranging from one to thousands.
- Market Opportunity
- In 2004, the U.S. book publishing industry totaled $23.7 billion, according to the Association of American Publishers. The market for user-generated books was at $5.4 billion for 2003, including the $2.9 billion self-publishing industry (Publisher's Marketing Association) and the $2.5 billion scrap booking/photo album industry (Hobby Industry Association of America).
- DEMO Says
- Our constant exposure to media sets a high bar for consumer-generated content. Blurb lets individuals create books that are every bit as professional looking as those produced by major publishing companies. But beyond book production, Blurb provides a marketplace so that individual publishers reap the rewards of their creations.
- Contact
- Chad Jennings
- cjennings@blurb.com
- Company Address
-
88 Kearny St, Suite 1610
San Francisco, CA 94108 - Primary Phone
- 415-362-2067
- Primary Fax
- 415-362-2078
- URL
- www.blurb.com
- Corporate Officers
- Eileen Gittins, CEO & Founder; Dr. Dan Crow, CTO; Pete Wheelan, COO; Bruce Watermann, Vice President, Print Operations
Sep 12th - 14th, 2011 ~ Hyatt Regency, Silicon Valley, CA
