Sell Photo eBooks for the iPad via Blurb
Automatically convert your Blurb photo book to an eBook and sell it for display on the iPad & iPhone iBooks app.
Books are a great way to make money from your photography. Now you can also sell electronic versions of your photo books, suitable for the iPad and iPhone.
Blurb is offering a low-cost conversion of your photo book into an ebook. Make your book with their free bookmaking tools and transform your books with one click at check out. Your cost is only $1.99 and you can set your own sale price. So, for a $9.99 book, you make $8.
You can sell your ebook on the Blurb Bookstore, and include links on your own website, emails, and social posts.
“See your ebook on the iBooks app just how you designed it, in gorgeous two-page spreads. Flip through pages, search text, zoom in on full-resolution images.”
—Blurb
I tried this out with one of my Blurb books the other day but I was disappointed with the results…. All the pages came out inverted so looked like negatives. Apparently there is an issue with the rendering process of PNG images so Blurb are going to give me a refund….
More info here: http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/blurb-ebooks-for-ipad/
Al.
Alan, You need to use jpegs for the printed or ebooks.
I’ve done several printed editions and ebooks for sale and they look gorgeous.
Convert your images(from your originals) and re-upload;try again!
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