Personal Publishing with Blurb.com

Ever wish you could say this at a cocktail party: “Yeah, last year I published a book on the culinary underground in San Francisco,” or better yet, garnish the coffee table with your own colorful creation? We stumbled onto a great site that encourages all of us to take matters into our own hands. Enter Blurb.com, an online publishing house that considers a book one of the finer things in life, and thinks everyone should experience having their name on a book cover...at least once. Blurb’s user-friendly site and variety of aesthetically pleasing layouts will satisfy the most design-savvy among us. Best yet, the process of creating your own book is incredibly easy from start to finish. As a Flickr partner, you can even grab photos directly from your own Flickr account, so those 154 underwater snorkeling snapshots can finally stand in the limelight. Blurb also takes the extra step of inviting customers to participate in its online bookstore, where Blurb-published books are sold. Actually getting paid for your new treasure would just be icing on the cake.