BookSmart
Encyclopedia
BookSmart is a bookmaking application
developed by Blurb
,Inc. It allows users to design and publish books. The software can import content from blog
s, Flickr
sets, Picasa, SmugMug, and iPhoto
albums, business plans, recipes, photos, email, and other sources, and includes book templates to aid in the layout of the books. In addition, Blurb enables authors to market and sell books created with BookSmart through its online bookstore. Blurb authors can tag
their book content with keywords
to maximize exposure, set their own pricing, and provide potential readers with a 15-page preview. The first beta version of BookSmart was made available to the public in May 2006.
pictures and text into book templates and choose between a variety of backgrounds, page layout
s, photo borders, themes, hand-illustrated ornaments, and color palettes. Finished books are printed on demand
in either hard or soft cover.
In October 2007, Blurb added a Community Book feature that lets bookmakers invite other people to contribute content to a group book project.
Bookmaking software
Bookmaking software provides a start-to-finish, self-publishing solution for end users. It combines the design capabilities of desktop publishing software applications with the connectivity of Web-based applications to seamlessly link desktop computers to remote digital printers, as well as online...
developed by Blurb
Blurb.com
Blurb is a company that provides a print-on-demand layout, printing and self-publishing service for the general public.- Awards :*In April 2008, Blurb is nominated for A 2008 Webby Award*In 2010, Blurb becomes 2010 IMA Award Winner....
,Inc. It allows users to design and publish books. The software can import content from blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
s, Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
sets, Picasa, SmugMug, and iPhoto
IPhoto
iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...
albums, business plans, recipes, photos, email, and other sources, and includes book templates to aid in the layout of the books. In addition, Blurb enables authors to market and sell books created with BookSmart through its online bookstore. Blurb authors can tag
Tag (metadata)
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
their book content with keywords
Keywords
Keywords are the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning. While they are used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension...
to maximize exposure, set their own pricing, and provide potential readers with a 15-page preview. The first beta version of BookSmart was made available to the public in May 2006.
Features
BookSmart allows users to drag-and-dropDrag-and-drop
In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of selecting a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object...
pictures and text into book templates and choose between a variety of backgrounds, page layout
Page layout
Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements on a page.- History and development :...
s, photo borders, themes, hand-illustrated ornaments, and color palettes. Finished books are printed on demand
Print on demand
Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...
in either hard or soft cover.
In October 2007, Blurb added a Community Book feature that lets bookmakers invite other people to contribute content to a group book project.