Comments on: Blog to Book? http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/ neat fun stuff Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michaelhttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-957375 Michael Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:03:03 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-957375 I am so glad I found this. My girlfriend was looking for a way to do this with her blog. She has written several entries of her short story children's book and would like to take it to the next level. Thanks. I am so glad I found this. My girlfriend was looking for a way to do this with her blog. She has written several entries of her short story children’s book and would like to take it to the next level. Thanks.

]]> By: Pashminu Mansukhanihttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-792047 Pashminu Mansukhani Wed, 18 May 2011 05:14:34 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-792047 I think it will be a great idea to convert a blog like yours into a book format along with PDF that others can read and refer to at a later date. I think it will be a great idea to convert a blog like yours into a book format along with PDF that others can read and refer to at a later date.

]]> By: Rickhttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-758365 Rick Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:09:25 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-758365 Hi, Maybe LJBook (ljbook.com/) is a good option to publish your blog. It provides the possibility to create a pdf from Wordpress and Blogger. The 2 most used blogs I think.For people from the Netherlands and Belgium unibook.com/ would be a great way to publish!Cheers, Hi, Maybe LJBook (ljbook.com/) is a good option to publish your blog. It provides the possibility to create a pdf from WordPress and Blogger. The 2 most used blogs I think.

For people from the Netherlands and Belgium unibook.com/ would be a great way to publish!

Cheers,

]]> By: Pammyhttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-706013 Pammy Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:53:46 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-706013 Hi Matt! I had the pleasure of meeting Bob from Lulu at a internet conference and I really believe in his product.. but I'm so high on fastpencil right now- thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.Regards, Pammy Hi Matt!
I had the pleasure of meeting Bob from Lulu at a internet conference and I really believe in his product.. but I’m so high on fastpencil right now- thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.

Regards,
Pammy

]]> By: Chrishttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-677724 Chris Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:13:57 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-677724 <a href="http://www.justworldbooks.com" rel="nofollow">Just World Books</a>is a start up publisher that has turned out three titles this fall that are all curated from blog content. The process is rather involved and involved multiple layers of editors, a typesetter and a POD service. The goal is to shape the blog content into a book format in a way that is highly readable. Future publications will also be curated from blog content. Far from a service or software, it is a team effort, but we think the product is much better for it. Just World Booksis a start up publisher that has turned out three titles this fall that are all curated from blog content. The process is rather involved and involved multiple layers of editors, a typesetter and a POD service. The goal is to shape the blog content into a book format in a way that is highly readable. Future publications will also be curated from blog content. Far from a service or software, it is a team effort, but we think the product is much better for it.

]]> By: Al Sefatihttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-572009 Al Sefati Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:48:23 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-572009 very nice...I didn't know of blurb thanks Matt. I have been wanted to do that for a long time. very nice…I didn’t know of blurb thanks Matt. I have been wanted to do that for a long time.

]]> By: Marchttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-562649 Marc Wed, 26 May 2010 17:34:19 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-562649 Hey guys,I enjoyed reading the conversation about how to print a blog / how to make a blog book. We at http://www.bookfabrik.com try to find an easy and convenient way to turn your blog into a book. We are still "beta" and are working on our layout machine - if you have a blogger.com account, go and check it out. Any comment - in addition to the things said in this stream - is most welcome. Thanks also to Flavio for his comment on wordpress pages - we will put this on our feature list!Cheers,Marc Hey guys,

I enjoyed reading the conversation about how to print a blog / how to make a blog book. We at http://www.bookfabrik.com try to find an easy and convenient way to turn your blog into a book. We are still “beta” and are working on our layout machine – if you have a blogger.com account, go and check it out. Any comment – in addition to the things said in this stream – is most welcome. Thanks also to Flavio for his comment on wordpress pages – we will put this on our feature list!

Cheers,

Marc

]]> By: Rasmus Wikmanhttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-504660 Rasmus Wikman Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:49:14 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-504660 (This is not really what you asked, but just wanted to share a print service provider perspective on the matter.)I've been pondering about the possibility of creating a service like this, but after a lot of thought, I think that the XML to PDF rendering process should be provided either by a separate actor or by the blog service provider itself.Creating a print ready PDF with tools like TCPDF (or the proprietary equivalent PDFLib) resembles the process of creating a web template a lot, so for Blogger (below "SaaS-provider") to add a PDF-template to the range of web-templates would be a lot easier than for the print service provider to "reverse engineer" the data model.From my perspective as a print service providers it's also better for both customer, SaaS-provider and us if we can focus on creating high quality prints instead of investing in SaaS.While not available to the developer community just yet, our solution is to offer an API to SaaS-providers where they query our server for price, delivery and options and then make the order. All through their own interface.This setup benefits all actors in the process; 1. The end customer doesn't have to get involved with a third party, all communication is done with the SaaS-provider (meaning less interfaces). 2. The SaaS-provider can use this to add another revenue stream to their service (since the customer relationship is B2B for us, we can lower the prices significantly and the SaaS can take their cut). 3. We can focus on printing rather than developing software. Yay!Below a link to the basic API for price queries. It accepts GET queries and returns JSON-data. "jt" is jobtype (1 = sheet printing), "a" is amount, "p" is pages, "fxx" stuff is different types of finishing and so on.http://www.whyprint.fi/getprice.php?language=en&category=21&product=239&type=1&jt=1&f=5&fft=1&fff=1&ffp=0&fct=1&fco=1&bl=3&a=1&p=350&s=5&w=0&h=0&pr=2&c=1&cc=1&m=3&mc=19&fwp=1&fwc=2&fwcf=1&fwcb=1As said, it's still only a method for querying prices, no other services are connected to it yet. But if anyone has interest in this, don't hesitate to throw me an e-mail!(The URL is about to change in a few days, realised a month ago our site is a complete SEO-disaster and I'm in the middle of mod_rewrite voodoo; the reason for reading your blog. :)) (This is not really what you asked, but just wanted to share a print service provider perspective on the matter.)

I’ve been pondering about the possibility of creating a service like this, but after a lot of thought, I think that the XML to PDF rendering process should be provided either by a separate actor or by the blog service provider itself.

Creating a print ready PDF with tools like TCPDF (or the proprietary equivalent PDFLib) resembles the process of creating a web template a lot, so for Blogger (below “SaaS-provider”) to add a PDF-template to the range of web-templates would be a lot easier than for the print service provider to “reverse engineer” the data model.

From my perspective as a print service providers it’s also better for both customer, SaaS-provider and us if we can focus on creating high quality prints instead of investing in SaaS.

While not available to the developer community just yet, our solution is to offer an API to SaaS-providers where they query our server for price, delivery and options and then make the order. All through their own interface.

This setup benefits all actors in the process;
1. The end customer doesn’t have to get involved with a third party, all communication is done with the SaaS-provider (meaning less interfaces).
2. The SaaS-provider can use this to add another revenue stream to their service (since the customer relationship is B2B for us, we can lower the prices significantly and the SaaS can take their cut).
3. We can focus on printing rather than developing software. Yay!

Below a link to the basic API for price queries. It accepts GET queries and returns JSON-data. “jt” is jobtype (1 = sheet printing), “a” is amount, “p” is pages, “fxx” stuff is different types of finishing and so on.

http://www.whyprint.fi/getprice.php?language=en&category=21&product=239&type=1&jt=1&f=5&fft=1&fff=1&ffp=0&fct=1&fco=1&bl=3&a=1&p=350&s=5&w=0&h=0&pr=2&c=1&cc=1&m=3&mc=19&fwp=1&fwc=2&fwcf=1&fwcb=1

As said, it’s still only a method for querying prices, no other services are connected to it yet. But if anyone has interest in this, don’t hesitate to throw me an e-mail!

(The URL is about to change in a few days, realised a month ago our site is a complete SEO-disaster and I’m in the middle of mod_rewrite voodoo; the reason for reading your blog. :) )

]]> By: Matt Whitehttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-499849 Matt White Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:13:04 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-499849 Hi Everyone, I am looking for a tool that is similar to this, but designed for turning blogs into newsletters. I work for an organization that creates a quarterly newsletter, and maintains a blog. The content tends to be different in the two mediums, but simply because this has been the status quo. I would like to encourage greater use of the blog, while reducing the time to put the newsletter together. Ideally, the tool would allow you to select which blog posts to use in the newsletter, and some formatting/organizational tools to help format the newsletter for print. Has anyone seen any tools out there that fit the bill? Thanks! Matt Hi Everyone,
I am looking for a tool that is similar to this, but designed for turning blogs into newsletters. I work for an organization that creates a quarterly newsletter, and maintains a blog. The content tends to be different in the two mediums, but simply because this has been the status quo. I would like to encourage greater use of the blog, while reducing the time to put the newsletter together. Ideally, the tool would allow you to select which blog posts to use in the newsletter, and some formatting/organizational tools to help format the newsletter for print. Has anyone seen any tools out there that fit the bill?
Thanks!
Matt

]]> By: Scott Scheperhttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/#comment-497608 Scott Scheper Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=3608#comment-497608 Hey Matt --Great post. Just came across this now. This is perfect for my online book on the concept of focusing in our digital age: <a href="http://howtogetfocused.com" rel="nofollow">link</a>I've been reading your articles on and off for the past couple of months (mostly through YCombinator). Great job, great posts. I really appreciate the time you've invested in this. Hey Matt —

Great post. Just came across this now. This is perfect for my online book on the concept of focusing in our digital age: link

I’ve been reading your articles on and off for the past couple of months (mostly through YCombinator). Great job, great posts. I really appreciate the time you’ve invested in this.

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