JAlbum users in the USA and Canada can now create, publish, share, market, and sell bookstore-quality photo books from Blurb. Blurb’s software lets anyone create bookstore-quality books by dragging and dropping images and adding text into hundreds of professionally-designed page layouts. “The JAlbum community is passionate about the presentation of their photos. Blurb’s devotion to quality and creative expression in books is therefore a great fit for us. Enabling our users to make real books opens up even more creativity in sharing images,” said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.

JAlbum Press Release

Stockholm, November 7th, 2007

Today, photo sharing site JAlbum.net introduces a new strategic partnership with Blurb, a creative publishing service and innovator in social print media. The partnership with Blurb allows JAlbum users to create, publish, share, market, and sell bookstore-quality photo books.

The endless customization possibilities of JAlbum’s web album software has attracted an extensive community of users who enjoy the control of the output of their online photo presentations. Partnering with Blurb enables JAlbum’s growing user base in the USA and Canada to make their own custom photo books.

Blurb’s software lets anyone create bookstore-quality books by dragging and dropping images and adding text into hundreds of professionally-designed page layouts. Users start by downloading Blurb’s free BookSmart software straight from JAlbums partner page. (More info: www.jalbum.net/printing). Once made, users can keep their books private, announce them to friends and family, or include them in Blurb’s public bookstore for others to see and purchase.

“The JAlbum community is passionate about the presentation of their photos. Blurb’s devotion to quality and creative expression in books is therefore a great fit for us. Enabling our users to make real books opens up even more creativity in sharing images,” said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.

About JAlbum
Stockholm based JAlbum AB was founded in the fall of 2006. The first version of JAlbum was released as a hobby project by founder David Ekholm in 2002. The JAlbum software is started every 4,5 seconds somewhere around the world and has been granted numerous awards from respectable companies like Softpedia, About.com, Download.com and Tucows.

About Blurb
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb’s creative publishing service is simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, artist, marketer, photographer, traveler, entrepreneur, poet, everyone. Additionally, Blurb’s bookstore and online marketing tools let Blurb authors sell and promote their books, and keep 100% of the author’s markup. Blurb’s community features – designed to encourage collaboration and communication – are defining social print media. Founded by Eileen Gittins in 2004 and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners, Blurb is bringing book publishing to the masses. Blurb BookSmart™ software is free for Mac or PC; users pay only when they publish their books.

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