Blurb.com - Publish Your Own Book

They say that everyone has a secret desire to write the greate American novel. If true, Blurb can help make it happen. Blurb offers free software to create, publish, and ultimately market bookstore-quality books. Users pay only when they publish their books. Given that their are more than 26 million (!!!) blogs out there, Blurb believes they are providing a long-overdue service that could help bloggers and other writers turn their ramblings into actual for-sale books. This is a populist site and exactly why the internet is revolutionizing so many industries, from art to politics. The site is well-funded, well-designed and great fun.

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. Holding a finished book with your name on the cover is a truly amazing feeling; it's one of those experiences everyone should have. As software people, designers, and publishing professionals at the top of our game, we realized something both incredible and obvious: there's no good reason why it should take tons of time, technical skills, big bucks, or friends in high places to publish a book. Or a zillion books, for that matter. So we put our minds together, and developed a creative publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone. (This means you.)

This site allows anyone and everyone to write and publish at least one book in their lifetime, even if it is just for the grandkids to read in 20 years.

How are they marketing this site? Have any self-published books made it big? Are they linked with the industry in any way so that maybe a popular book can get into the arms of someone who can really market it for sale? Have they considered sponsoring contests to raise the visibility of the site?

Check out how Blurb.com became profitable at KillerBlog.com