A 41 to 80-page book is the next bracket so it pays to stay on the high end of the page count before moving into the next, more expensive category. All of the previous prices are for a 40-page book and you can publish up to a 440-page book, moving up in 40-page increments. The most important thing to know about pricing is that books are priced by page count but not by the page. The Book Pricing section currently shows the cost for four different styles of books including Square (7x7”) starting at $12.95, Standard Portrait (8x10”) beginning at $19.95, Standard Landscape (10x8”) starting at $19.95, and Large Format Landscape (13x11”) beginning at $54.95. All these choices means there are lots of different permutations and combinations, so you’re sure to find one that fits your goals, aspirations, and budget.Īs I wrote this, Blurb raised their prices, so I recommend checking the Book Pricing section of the website for the current rates. A new option called “Hard Cover, ImageWrap” wraps photos around the hard covers, kind of like a built-in dust jacket.

Don’t laugh, the number of famous authors who have gone through this is legion.īlurb lets you create books in four sizes, including photography books that can be produced in hard cover with a dust jacket or softbound versions. Blurb lets you do that without suffering the indignities of receiving enough publishers’ rejection slips to wallpaper your bathroom. You can use Blurb or any of many other services to publish the Great American Novel but I’ve always wanted to publish a coffee table book. POD is short for “print on demand” and ( is only one of several different websites (see “Self Publishing Options”) that let you produce books in quantities as few as one. That’s why after every photo book publisher I spoke with rejected my book “How I Photograph Cars,” I decided to do it myself. The first shots at books like this may be given to “name” photographers but you can happily self-publish your own book of landscape images or any other subject, and maybe even sell several hundred copies, making a few bucks in the process.

The chance of any publisher seriously looking at a unknown photographer’s book on landscape photography featuring classic locations such as Arches National Park or Yosemite-no matter how good they may be-are slim and none. To book publishers this means who’s making the photographs is more important than where. Even though I am author or co-author of 30 books produced by several different book publishers, some of my recent books has been self-published and the reasons for doing so are the same reasons that I’m going to suggest you try self-publishing.Įxcept for photographs made on the moon, everybody has been almost everywhere and photographed just about everything. I can’t help you with that first goal but I sure can with the second. Most photographers dream of accomplishing two things in the publishing world: The first is having their work featured in a national publication such as Shutterbug, National Geographic, or maybe Playboy and the second is showcasing their photography in a coffee table book. A Great Way To Show And Share Your Images

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