Blurb, Inc.

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Blurb Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Self-publishing
Founded2005;20 years ago (2005)
FounderEileen Gittins
Headquarters San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people
Rix Kramlich
(CEO)
Eileen Gittins
(chairman)
ProductsBookWright, Blurb plug-in for Adobe InDesign, Blurb iOS app, BookSmart, Blurb PDF Uploader, Blurb book module in Adobe Lightroom Classic
Number of employees
120
Website www.blurb.com

Blurb Inc. is an American self-publishing platform that allows users to create, self-publish, promote, share, and sell their own print and ebooks. It also offers software for laying out books.

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History

The company was founded in 2005 by Eileen Gittins and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Blurb's headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

Time magazine named Blurb one of 2006's "50 Coolest Web Sites". [1]

The company generates nearly $100 million [2] in revenues per year.

Blurb announced a partnership with Amazon [3] in April 2014. The deal allows Blurb-designed books to be sold and distributed on the Amazon platform. The partnership enables self-publishing on the platform with a 15% cut on Blurb books. [4]

In May 2014 Blurb acquired MagCloud, [5] a self-publishing platform for magazines, under a licensing agreement from HP. In the deal, Blurb took over the company's technology and operations. Blurb was acquired by their print fulfillment partner Reischling Press, Inc. (RPI) for an undisclosed amount in August 2020. [6]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Web Search and Services". Time . August 3, 2006. Archived from the original on August 19, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
  2. ↑ "All Entrepreneurs Need to Tell These 6 Stories". Inc. June 3, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Burgett, Gannon (April 22, 2014). "Blurb Announces Partnership with Amazon to Simplify Self-Publishing Photo Books". PetaPixel. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Blurb strikes unique 15% deal with Amazon". Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ Griffith, Erin (May 6, 2014). "Blurb acquires HP's MagCloud, aims to dominate long-tail publishing". Fortune . Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ Pageau, Gary (August 3, 2020). "RPI acquires Blurb". The Dead Pixels Society. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  7. ↑ 12th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners Archived April 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "2010 Open Award Winners are Announced & Exhibition is Launched". Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ "America's Fastest-Growing Media Company". Inc. September 1, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
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