probably my books are not appetizing, too… people just looking but no any sales.
maybe they just don’t like my works or maybe my books are just bad. don’t know..
:)

Not sure, but it seems like REINSTALLATION OF KASPERSKY ANTIVIRUS has fixed the issue. 

Hi,
I’ve created a few books for one particular author, now other authors want me to create books for them.

My question is, can I set up paypal accounts for each author so they receive the profits directly from their own books? I don’t want to have to deal with the money coming into my account then having to resend that money to each author.

I could create different blurb accts for each author but I’d prefer not to do that so all the books are available in one blur bookstore.

Cheers,
Sione

Hi,

first post here and I just wanted to say how simple I am finding the software to use. I already have a 58 page book to a point where I am tempted just to order one and see what the finished results would be.  The theme is aviation related from one particular location over the past 7 years and I have a lot of images to choose from (that is proving a challenge picking and locating the ones I want)  One thing I am uncertain of is whether or not to put captions on each of the photos describing some details about the aircraft itself.

I will upload the book ‘as is’ later and see what it looks like

rgds

Paul

hello

I’ve finished my book thanks to indesign and blurb tools. But i cannot find the way to uplaod it.

thanks a lot for advices.

regards

I am a strong advocate of Blurb books – I like your tools and and I teach tutorials on book making in my photography group – I think you have a great combination of image quality, paper, binding, and price – But several friends are now making coffee table books with the My Publisher lay flat binding that are making me consider a change of publishers – can you give any hint on when lay flat binding will be available?

I am having the same problem and neither is working.

Thanks, Craig. I have never uploaded from my desktop computer yet. But, I have uploaded book from my laptop. Both receive the same error. My only concer is the updated Kaspersky Antivirus. But, I turn it off during the upload process (as well as Windows Firewall). Are there any particular Proxy settings that MUST be used for the BookSmart upload?

Yes, I follow up with my suppoer rep. His second message was about his change of my credentials (again)… 

Thank you,

Aliaks

They have a shipping calculator (http://www.blurb.co.uk/shipping) – it doesn’t ask for book size or number of pages, just the quantity, country and postcode. How is that fair?

Blurb won’t get anything from me until the shipping costs change. For a private project I wanted to print 100 copies of a pocket book-sized book, 34 pages. Shipping costs – £103.99.

Er, what?!!!

Effectively that means I could order 100 copies of the largest, heaviest book with hundreds of pages and the shipping cost would be the same.

Totally ridiculous.

Blurb, your shipping arrangements may make it easier for you to manage from an admin point of view, but it absolutely unfair to your customers.

Hello,

I cannot connect to my Blurb account from BookSmart (version 3.4.3.34780_en_US). I have a book to publish, but I cannot upload it. When I click on "Order" and enter credentials, I receive an error saying that my credentials are incorrect. I AM ABLE TO LOGIN TO MY ACCOUNT FROM A WEB BROWSER (but not from BookSmart). I have changed the password several times, restarted software, and restarted PC… I have also turned off the antivirus program and windows firewall. I have exported project file and imported it to BookSmart on another computer, on which I have also turned off antivirus and firewall. But I receive the same error on both PCs. I’ve also tried to login to my two separate accounts… NO LUCK!

I have submitted a support ticket. After a day of waiting I got a response which was informing me that a support person changed my credentials for me. That’s all support I got from Blurb. UNBELIAVABLE! After thousands of dollars paid to them. The text above is a copy/paste from my support request. I guess Blurb’s support people don’t read the requests. They just change credentials for everybody.    

ANY THOUGHTS WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED! 

I’m teaching Classics and find that the set texts (which are all Penguin Classics) become exceptionally tatty after just one read. As I have a tendency to litter my copies with notes I really don’t want to have to replace them, so I was wondering whether I could get book jackets/dust covers for them. At the minute the only way I see of doing this would be to buy an empty book & use the dust cover, which with a library of over 100 Penguins would leave me with a stack of expensive notebooks!

Ideally what I’m looking for would be hard-wearing book jackets rather than thin dust covers – I need them to add to the integrity of the books rather than just being a pretty cover.

Any thoughts as to whether this might be possible?

Hello mchart_1,

I’m sorry to hear your books were not what you had expected. You don’t seem to have ever contacted us at customer support regarding this issue. That’s unfortunate, as this may have simply been a print defect and we could have ordered a reprint to confirm that. You may contact us via support.blurb.com if you’d like us to look into the problem.

Regards,

Michael/Blurb Customer Support

I am having the same problem!! Help!