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I like designing picture books withing Adobe InDesign and then loading it through their upload PDF. You can install their plug-in and load it directly from the software on your desktop. They also have coupons available frequently to cut down on costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I hate when you are ordering and you make a selection such as Expedited shipping; when you enter the mailing address in or the coupon code, it resets the shipping the default and you have to go back and make sure that you reselect the faster shipping options. It's caused me to have a delayed order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The website is fresh and easy to navigate and their product offerings are robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is clear that Blurb caters to amateurs. They charge a 25% "Custom Logo Fee" to have their logo REMOVED from your book. Yep, unless you are willing to be a free advertisement for them, you must pay them for removing their logo.

There are plenty of other options out there that do not expect clients to be unpaid ad staff.

I would never use them or recommend them for that reason alone.

Their online support also seems to be tone-deaf to the whole idea that people who resell their products don't want 3rd party logos on the books. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quick customer service reply though the online chat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fraudulent company, won't let you access your own work. Their printing prices are 6 times the cost of my local printer but they will only sell me an unprintable pdf as a way to try and force me to pay their exorbitante printing prices. The work in the app is my content and my labour which they can profit off of but they refused to even sell me my own work to print myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a simple to use website that let's you publish yourself without too many complicated hassles. Uploading, set up, and layouts are easy to create and fun to use. Their customer service is very easily reachable and you get your product in a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lately, since they've begun to be more popular, they have been making mistakes on the printing, specifically with the quality of it. Some come out with missing pages, others with ink spots or lines, etc. And they seem to not be as good at replacing the prints as easily and complacently as before. It's a big push away for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blurb allows for easy and quick publication of student-produced text. The simplicity allows the process to be put into students’ hands and for them to walk away with professional looking books. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fonts sometimes are not supported, and as can be expected quick self-publishing means that there are inconsistencies in formatting, primarily trying to match cover dimensions without using the suggested (but not always user-friendly) Bookwright program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Super easy to use. I loved the preset layouts - they let me create entire books easy and quickly. I liked that I could put in quotes, large blocks of text as needed. I could upload photos as backgrounds so layouts varied between white clean pages and more image focused layouts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I couldn't find the layout that I was looking for and there wasn't an option to change the layout and customize it. Text was hard to input - fonts sometimes were inconsistent in type and in size, so I would have to do a check on each text box after I inputted all the content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I love about Blurb is that it brings book publishing to the masses! In this digital age where we never look at our photos after we've taken them, Blurb makes it so easy to make a great family album or record a special event with ease and then order it as a lovely gift for a loved one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past I tried to use the InDesign merging option with Blurb, I'm not sure if this feature still exists as I haven't looked at it lately but despite being a professional designer with knowledge of pagination and imposition and what not I still managed to screw up the pagination so that my pages were out of order. I think what was unclear was that it is not made clear how many pages are added at the beginning and end of the book for Blurb's end pages and that's where I went wrong.

However, other than that minor hiccup which could very well have been user error it worked fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blurb offers great tools especially in book making. I was able to make a book with images and text that I needed exactly how I wanted it and at a decent price. The printing was really good. Great quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their interface was slow and it took a decent amount of time to finish the book, partially because I put a lot of images and text and design changes into it, but the issue I had was the slowness of the system at the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You just upload your artwork, and it's ready to be printed! Very simple process that's affordable and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cover and paper options, there could be more, but I'm not complaining. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blurb is really easy to use, and the print quality is excellent! Colours are exactly as they should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although the quality is slightly superior to others, the cost is also a little bit higher than others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.