Blurb books your blogs
Rafe Needleman Former Editor at Large
Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.
PHOENIX--They say everybody has a book in them and these days, it appears everybody has a blog. Blurb is showing its BookSmart product, which makes it easy to convert a blog to a book. Sounds like a recipe for a terrible book, although maybe a good photo album (if your blog is primarily pictures). And to be fair, BookSmart doesn't only bookify blogs. It's really a tool to create a pleasing, bound document from whatever input you want--blogs, text files, photos, etc. It costs about $30 and it's like Apple Computer's iPhoto albums, but far more flexible: You can make novels, albums, coffee-table-like books, cookbooks and so on. The books look great, and the product looks like a winner.