BookSmart
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| Developer(s) | Blurb, Inc. |
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| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Application |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.blurb.com |
BookSmart is a free publishing tool developed by Blurb, Inc. The BookSmart application turns blogs, business plans, recipes, photos, email, wikis, or any other content into bookstore-quality books. This bookmaking application allows users to drag and drop pictures and text into professionally designed book templates, with dust jackets, customizable backgrounds, page layouts, and color palettes. The beta version of BookSmart became available to the public in May 2006.
Features
This bookmaking application allows users to drag-and-drop pictures and text into professionally designed books with customizable backgrounds, page layouts, and color palettes. Unlike standard digital photo album applications, BookSmart provides:
- text options
- book sizes from 20 to 440 pages
- custom covers
- an autoflow feature that automatically flows photos
Each book is then printed on demand, in any quantity, from one to several thousand.
File Formats
BookSmart runs on any PC running Windows 2000 or XP, and Apple running Mac OS X and can be downloaded for free.
Development
BookSmart is currently in beta. Version 1.3 was released August 30, 2006.