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Blurb Announces Print Partnership with Scribd

Monday 19. April 2010 - Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform, today announced a partnership with Scribd, the world's largest social publishing and reading site. Scribd's users can now easily and affordably turn their written and illustrated works on the site into professional quality books using Blurb. The partnership leverages Blurb's API to instantly convert content uploaded to Scribd into book form, meaning consumers can complete an order for a book within minutes.

“Taking Scribd documents into book form will elevate the impact and importance of the content itself,” said Eileen Gittins, Founder and CEO of Blurb. “Whereas other print forms are intended to be consumed, books have a valuable and extremely long shelf life. Blurb and Scribd have already identified over 1 million documents on the Scribd site that users can Bookify(TM) and turn into affordable, professional quality books.”

Key consumer benefits of the Blurb/Scribd partnership include:

— Professional-quality publishing — Blurb’s Global Print Network
delivers high-quality printing and a bookstore-quality published book.
— No order minimum — Order one or many books.
— Affordable — Prices start at $12.95. Volume discounts begin with
orders of 10 books or more.
— Fast turnaround — Blurb ships your book directly to your doorstep
within 7-10 business days.




“Partnering with Blurb offers our users one more way to consume content both on- and offline,” said Jared Friedman, CTO and co-founder, Scribd. “It also offers authors a way to make their eBooks available in print.”

Blurb plans to open its platform to additional content partners when it makes its API public in the near future.

Earlier this year, Blurb reported record growth in 2009 with sales of more than $45 million. The company created and shipped more than 1.2 million books in 2009.