Self Publishing with Blurb

Hello again, everyone. The last time I wrote an article about self publishing through an alternative for Smashwords, I complained about Lulu. The short version is that unless you pay for their services, which would make them a P.O.D. company who publishes your work; and as such not actually self publishing, it is not a good alternative to Smashwords.

I haven’t written anything on this subject for a time because I wanted something brand new and unpublished to publish through the next company on the list of alternatives. Real quick, that list seems to have changed since my last article, but Blurb, a supposed self publishing platform, is my next one on this list.

First and foremost, self publishing means that you are the publisher. You are publishing your work through a platform. P.O.D. or print on demand, means you are hiring a company to publish for you, and I do not consider that self publishing because the company is the publisher.

On to Blurb!

You can see from the picture above that Blurb offers services, so right off the bat, I’m guessing this is actually a P.O.D. press, which also allows writers to self publish. If you hover over the sell & self…