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2.3

Last month, I created a Blurb account in order to make a photobook about my works. At first, I just wanna pay for the PDF so I can print it myself cause I'm not in the US and the shipping cost is so damn high.

But then, I'd noticed that there was an option called "Sell through Blurb", so I've tried. I do some marketing things like share the link in flickr groups, forums, facebook groups so I'd made a few sales (yeah, maybe I'm a lucky on).

Suddenly, 2 days ago, I couldn't log in to my account. They keeps saying that my wrong username or password. I'd contacted them right then, and had been replied with a password reset link. Didn't work. The support guy tried to change the password to me, still no effects.

Then someone on the Facebook group told me that he couldn't access to my book on Blurb. So the true answer here maybe that Blurb deleted my book, and my account.

Huh!

I have 1 or 2 of people buying the book in order to donate me (we've known for long, that's common in photography groups fiy), and they said they can still download my PDF from Blurb.

How does that even mean? That means Blurb still charges the amount my friends wanted to donate me, or my customers wanted to pay me, and not only deleted my account but also have all the money from my works?

I've heard that Blurb is a multi-million-dollar company and that sounds so wrong.

Well, when you earn some money that you don't actually make, I call that a SCAM!

Reason of review: Return, Exchange or Cancellation Policy.

Monetary Loss: $300.

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution.

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Labrea Pwf

Sad to acknowledge, the poster's account sounds true. It is challenging for authors to earn money through Blurb's global distribution.

One reason is by distributing to third party vendors, Blurb usually doubles or triples the book's mandatory price. To avoid increasing the sale price, the author is pressed to accept a much lower royalty while mainstream publications are still sold at a much reasonable price online and in book stores. About the poster's account, when I was trying to learn why third-party vendors were selling one of my books.

And, Blurb is not rewarding me royalties (unless it was sold from their site). Blurb closed my account, assuming they have no records of the account's e-mail.

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