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How many books have you sold?
General Interest
None;( 1has had a lot of viewers and everbody who’s seen it is raving but as it’s large landscape and 230 pages it is too expensive, even without markup. The 2nd nobody seems interested in, but there are more books about highlights of Peru, so am not surprised. The other two I had expected more from, smaller so cheaper and thought that at least one was moderately funny. Ah well, that is life. Would though that people could leave commentaries or reviews somewhere so I’d have some feedback from all you out there what you think of the things I put together! Frances
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Good printing but book is loosing pages after hours of delivery
Book Printing
welcome to the club.
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From reprint to 2nd reprint ?
Book Printing
Dear Nora, the pics I posted on this thread are from my book that has 230 pages I would wait untill they have solved their binding problems with the European printer if I were you. This all does not mean that the quality of all books is poor, the American printed books seem to be terrific if I read the feedback from the US customers. It is us living in Europe that better wait a bit. On another discussion I read from one of the Blurb staff that books over 120 pages cannot be stitched. Though there are larger books for sale that have a stitched binding, these are obviously not Blurb-books and I took that comment as meaning that Blurb does not offer stitched bindings for larger books. So be advised and suces with your project Kathy, thanks for your feedback. I did fill out a feedback form and today I got the reply that my money will be refunded as Blurb does not as yet have a solution for books as large as the one I made (landscape portfolio 230 pages). I regret that there isn’t a solution in which I get a nice book (I really liked the prints in the book and the way it overall looked- apart from the binding ofcourse) but I appreciate the honesty of customer support and the refund. I will be waiting for things to get fixed to try again. Frances
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From reprint to 2nd reprint ?
Book Printing
these are pics from my reprint :((  
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Notification of books sold
General Interest
hear hear. I do not want to conatct customers but it would be nice to know if anybody bought my book. As non-US-resident I cannot enroll in the profit-system. But I can see that over a 1000 people have looked at my book. I would SO want to know if somebody actually wanted to pay money for it.
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An idea for international authors
General Interest
Sounds like a plan, only if the quality is lacking they will return to you for returns etc, As you can;t check the quality yourself before it is shipped, that might be an problem. More so when the customer lives in Europe and thus gets his book printed there. There are major quality issues with that printer so I would not want them to send directly to the client. Better order a stack and ship them yourself after checking them carefully
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Is there a forum for someone to look at your book and tell you what they...
General Interest
some people put all the pictures they have in their book on a website and then post the link to that website in their description of the book. That will give you an idea of the pictures, but not the whole lay-out and that is important too ofcourse. Maybe make a PDF of the book and put that on their websites??
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a book by non u.s. citizen in blurb bookstore
General Interest
Paul, can you tell me more about Amazon? I’d like to check them out frances
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How to post pictures?
General Interest
you guys have totally lost me somewhere halfway…. If I want to post a picture on a forum that is not somewhere on the web but somewhere on the drive of my computer, how do I insert that in a thread?
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Printing from different places
Book Printing
sad to say the reprint arrived and had exactly the same defects
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There is a lot of SATISFACTION in the forums
Book Printing
I am so glad you guys are very happy. I do not want to thrash Blurb just to thrash. But after a print and a reprint falling apart I loose hope a bit. I WANT to believe, because the prints are beautiful, I love the dustcover, the format is great. It is just that the books fall apart after 3 viewings or less.
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From reprint to 2nd reprint ?
Book Printing
![]() my reprint arrived and again loose pages and nasty white seams between pages. Also European printer.
Please work this out. I was so happy having found a company like Blurb and now I am so disappointed Blurb: PLEASE give me an American reprint this time???![]()
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From reprint to 2nd reprint ?
Book Printing
ouch, Blurb really needs to get his act together on these European printers. Everybody I personally know that ordered a book with Blurb and got a european print ended up with books falling apart. This is NOT GOOD Why not – in the mean time- print the books in the US where the quality seems to be so much better and punish that European printer for his bad bad quality
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Hardcover landscape books are loosing pages
Book Printing
Hi, here I read that books over 120 pages are too large to be sewn?? I looked up my Frans Lanting coffe Table books right away. They are huge format 300+pages and sewn. So to me that does seem possible?
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Hardcover landscape books are loosing pages
Book Printing
Hi Brianbonitz, I admire your loyalty to Blurb, I have observed it on several forums. I am glad for you that you are so satisfied with Blurb. And I do know they are a start-up company. However: if you have a company that does sell this kind of product and does use different suppliers to work with you have to deliver quality for money. If you don’t you’ll never get past the start-up fase. Looking at the different forums these issues with the european printer have been there for a while and still they use that printer. I do understand that they are trying to get things organised there, but that does not change the fact that I paid $144 dollar for a book that fell apart almost right away and my friend paid twice that money for 2 books and had the same problem. That should not happen! Not for that kind of money. Maybe $144 is not expensive for this kind of single issue book, but to me it is still a lot of money. And apparently in the US that does not happen, it happens in Europe. So that means that it IS possible to produce that kind of large format landscape with a lot of pages that actually behaves like a book. (ofcourse, being the owner of several beautiful Frans Lanting books, large format, 300+ pages and SEWN, I knew that already). Knowing that WHY make your European customers go through the motion (and disappointment) of getting a disappointing book, having to complain, having to wait again for the reprint etc ect. My friend and I did get in contact with customer service and they did order a reprint. But frankly, what quality is that going to be if they still have that made with the European printer?? I know, we’ll have to wait and see and next week we’ll know more. But I must confess that at this point I do not have a lot of faith in this product. I had started a new project, but will hold of to see how this developes.
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Terrible binding
Book Printing
nikihana,. I feel for you. My book fell apart after 2 collegues and me looked through it. My friend, who received 2 books this week now also has 2 piles of loose pages you also live in europe????
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Hardcover landscape books are loosing pages
Book Printing
shame to see that the issues with the european printer were already being discussed in september 07 and that nothing has changed. I received my book yesterday, from the european printer. My friend received 2 books this week also from the european printer. All 3 books have fallen apart, within the hour. We have gotten reprintorders but as they are likely being reprinted in europe (as we live there) all hope is lost that this wasn’t just a temporary glitch but a structural problem. we’ll see next week. There go 3 months of work and $144 am not happy
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unstuck book
Book Printing
Markludbrook, are you living in europe? That might be the problem, the printer they use in Europe is awful with their binding. I have so far seen 3 books from there and they all fall apart within 3 viewings
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What wrong with page connecting ?
Book Printing
it is as if I am looking at my book and the 2 books my friend ordered. All printed in europe, all falling apart after looking through them 2 times. BAD BAD BAD quality binding. If the printer in Europe is such a troublesome company, PLEASE get me an american printed book, preferably with sewn binding. I paid $144 to get my book and end up with a lot of time loss and a reprint from the same european printer. It will come next week. PLEASE let it be good???? Frances
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Printing from different places
Book Printing
I have just ordered en received my first book, a 230 page portfolio. It fell apart within t5 viewings. A friend of mine had ordered my book also (sweet guy) and his copy fell apart within 3 viewings. He had also ordered his own first book, a 160 page portfolio. It arrived today and fell apart within almost right away. Now I read that Blurb also have printers that actually sew their bindings! Why are our expensive max format books glued (and in a really really miserable way too) if it is apparently clear that the pageformat and book size is too large for glue to hold on to. When there is sewing available??? I did contact customerservice and so did my friend and we both got reprintorders. But if they are done at the same adress we both fear that it is no use. I did ask customerservice if it was possible to get our new prints from a better printer but never had an answer to that part of my question. How to make sure that it is worth all the trouble. What if these reprints arrive and fall apart as soon as you try to actually look at the pages??? Please reassure me. Frances
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how come unsharp?? and why not aligned
Book Printing
I just had my first book printed. I made a couple of full bleeds. There were all the same filesize and to make them full bleed I enlarged them exactly the same. Still one of the pictures, that is in the original photo definitely SHARP is now looking unsharp. The others are the same as the orginals. also some of the full bleeds ar mal-aligned , in the PDF already, even though I have taken great care to align the 2 halves. How is that possible and what can I do about it? frances
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Blurb in the Netherlands??
Web Features
Googleling "Blurb" I found a site that mentioned that Blurb would come available in the Netherlands, connected to Flickr. That was a posting from 7 months ago. I can’t find anything anymore though and Flickr is not my site of choice to work with anyhow. What I would like to know is whether there is a Dutch company working with or franchising Blurb??? That would make a lot of things easier, quicker and cheaper for me? Frances
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Tracking books sold?
Web Features
Me too!! Frances
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locked text on the spine of the book is not matching
Tips and Tricks
I found that the text on the spine of the book is not matching the title. In words it does, but the program doesn’t copy the font, text-color and size of the title. So it is necessary to change that to get your book looking good. The thing is that I change it, then close that part of the spine just to see that dreaded text jumpo back again to the standard black type garamont what am I doing wrong???? Frances
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Waar vind ik mijn verkopen
Tips and Tricks
Je kan die niet zien. je kunt je sales alleen bijhouden wanneer je een "set-your price"account hebt en dat kan je niet als niet-US-ingezetene. Ik heb het opgelost door in mijn profiel op te nemen dat ik zeer vereed zou zijn als iemand mijn boek wilde kopen en daarom dat graag zou weten met het verzoek erbij een email te sturen (+ emailadres uiteraard) heel frustrerend inderdaad Frances
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