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You take pictures, you post, you like… And now you can blook!

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Discover the new service that gives value to your digital contents!

Blogs appeared in the 90’s. First used by professionals and companies, private individuals haven’t waited to adopt those digital spaces of expression. Maybe you too own a blog like 250 millions of people in the world?

Blogs and social networks have replaced private journals: nowadays, people like to speak about them, what they love, their passions and express the need to share every single moment of their daily life. And while we spend more and more time feeding digital accounts, BlookUp offers to do the opposite: give tangible form again to digital contents to turn them into books.

Inventor of this new use, BlookUp allows to “blook” (contraction of the words “book” and “blog”) your blogs or social networks accounts, to materialize your virtual contents in the form of a book, using the codes of a traditional publication. That is to say with a customized cover, pagination, table of contents…

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Why make your blook?

If blogs and social networks are amazing spaces to express yourself, internet remains insubstantiable and this accumulation of digital posts is pointless if it’s not shared or valued. That’s where book still have a bright future, because beyond a reminder book or a sharing book, making your blog book is an event, it’s making YOUR book. By creating theur blook, bloggers customized their cover, adjust the layout, they give life to a publication, a transmissible work, certainly modest but dear to them and the ones they love.

Because the content of a blog is often very personal and concerns a family, it requires investment, passion, time to write, post… The more time they spend on their blog or their social network accounts, the more the authors want to keep a material track of their work.

Already 8000 bloggers have made their blook, what about you?

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After connected paper, the digital is now…materialized again !

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Paper is approximatively 3000 years old and it’s not ready to disappear. On the contrary, paper has recently known a renewal thanks to the cohabitation with its sworn enemy: the digital.

Nowadays, digital and book are no longer contradictory, but they complement each other. We all know QR codes or Flash codes: children books now offer augmented reality, packagings of frozen fish tell us many informations about the product and where it’s been fished, the specie, the receipes you can cook with it… Connected paper allows the readers, the companies and the brands to use a new space of information and communication thanks to our smartphone’s screen.

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Thanks to digital technologies and databases, printing companies like Maqprint are able to print very customized contents and deliver documents limited to only a few people. Part or all the elements (texts, pictures, graphs, colors, lay-out) composing a document or a book can be different from one another, allowing to target more efficiently the needs of the customers or readers.

Digital combined to databases opens up to the possibility of various marketing scripts. So, tomorrow an airline company could offer on-board customized magazines to travellers according to their own interests.

Proof that digital and paper mustn’t be opposed: BlookUp 

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Since 4 years, BlookUp offers to print books from personal blogs. Todan thanks to a reversed technology we lay-out digital flows, texts and pictures to turn them into real paper books. Reasons to materialize your blog again are numerous. To keep a track of your writings, save it because you are afraid to loose it one day, to offer it and share your book (books are a great gift!) or to sell it to other readers: making your “blook” (contraction of the words “blog” and “book”) is a great thing to do.

So, you can love digital, blogs, social networks… But also the smell of a new book, the touch of the paper, the pleasure to show it to others, commenting moments of your life around a nice and beautiful paper book.

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Print the book of your WordPress blog

Posted on by wsb

You have a blog on WordPress that you have created several months or several years ago? And you regularly publish posts and pictures on this private space? Like many people that are passionate, you invest your time and energy to make you blog everyday. And like many people, you maybe tell yourself that it would be great if you could one day print the book of your blog and keep a material track of its digital content!

Well, thanks to BlookUp it’s now possible. To save your content, print it for yourself or to offer to others; printing a blog is now a reality for all bloggers.

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BlookUp is indeed the only platform to offer to print the content of a WordPress blog without the need to get into a tiresome process, or to install a page setting software.

BlookUp is an online service dedicated to private individuals that allows to upload all the content of WordPress blogs (but also from other platforms and social networks) and to lay-out automatically all or part of that content to turn it into a book or an Ebook.

On the platform, the blogger chooses the publication period, the posts that he wishes to keep, lay-out options such as: typography, titles size, pictures size… Then, he customises the cover and back cover of its book (that becomes a “blook”, contraction of the words “book” and “blog”).

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The blogger can finally see in a few clicks the preview of its book and if he’s satisfied, he can order it directly online! The book is printed in France and delivered in a few days to its home, everywhere in the world. What are you waiting to begin?

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Why is the digital book more expensive than the printed book?

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Screen print blogThe question remains unsettled. It would seem that the model business of the digital book is not still good establishes.

A blogger enjoied making a comparative study. In every case, the digital book is more expensive than paper book!

It is a real problem when we know, and we are placed well for the knowledge in the edition of books of blogs, that one of the main costs it is paper (60 % of the price in self-publishing, even if certainly the technique of printing is different).

What is interesting it is to deal with comments, debates and claiming of the Internet users, on the subject.

Between the ecology, the remuneration for the authors, the hacking, the boycott of the publishers. Everyone brings his own arguments. The digital debate vs paper extends in the infinity. But does the debate really exist? Each should have the choice of lira on the support of its choice, the whole being only a packaging of contents.

Should not the publishers and the booksellers more anticipate and to reposition with regard to this advance of the digital technology in their world, rather than to make understand, in a clarify way, that they are not still ready for the digital technology?

Physically change pages? Completely has-been!

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That is what we could soon hear in the mouth of the youngest, the generation “digital native” been born a transplanted keyboard left hand and a smartphone right hand.

If 98 % of the young people prefer to read on paper rather than on screen, the question is whether the paper will always have so many followers when this “digital natives” will reach the age to be bibliophiles?

Maybe what is more for this new generation, the expression ” to turn over a new leaf” will be transformed there “to refresh the page”, more adequate to what defines the current digital page.

Be up to date; turn in a loop; the record is crossed off: will these expressions have only another sense tomorrow? Or will they have become unusual since the progressive disappearance of their support? Mp3 haveov taken an important place in the current musical consumption, it is logically that the market of the Compact disc tends to disappear. Already met phenomenon there are more than about twenty year with the extinction of the vinyl for the benefit of Said CD.

For the book and the appearance of its malefic double: the digital book, it is about a similar foundation. Real debate, the dematerialization of the book causes(provokes) the same debates today which enamelled the passage in the digital photography and in the dematerialized music. Paper book(pound) Vs digital book there will be there only one, which? And why not both if we take into account economic data and sociological?

The paper book, the museum piece or the collector’s edition?

In the coming years, we are going to observe a “collector’s” future of the paper book in front of development of his digital antagonist? It is also the difference: the material. Between paper and digital support, the material entraine this clear quality gap, the paper becomes a luxury object in the face of a dematerialized support. Actually, hypothetically, it is not impossible that the digital book comes to replace the paperback.

The future of the book, the Print-On Demand?

A complete report has just been made in May by the Association of College and Research libraries on “the scenarios for the future of the book”.

It explores 4 alternatives with which can be confronted the book. Since almost disappearance of the paper book for the benefit of the digital technology or mutually, the failure of the ebook because of a too expensive technology and which does not convince the readers, certain data are however common to all the scenarios:

  1. The technology of the printed books does not go out but occupies a position, a different function (let us remember ourselves that even if the electricity produces the light, candles kept a status mattering in our company)
  2. The readers of books are less numerous
  3. A new phenomenon expands: Print-On Demand.

 

In 2020, the creation and the publication of books will be less expensive and easier. We shall not find any more only authors’ big names: a lot of people unknowns will self-publish their own paper books to share their papers with friends or to keep a track of things, facts. In these conditions the ISBN will not be any more an essential component of the book and there will be more and more titles of books of fiction, short stories, poems, theories.

The authors will continue to find that the paper book is more taken seriously than his digital counterpart and the paper books will become the new business cards. Leave me your book, I would tell you what you are worth.

The world could thus continue to be invaded by the paper book and it ironically made possible by the digital technologies.

Turn over a new leaf?Will the new generation still read paper books?