Blurb announced a strategic partnership with SmugMug, an online photo sharing and photo storage website. The partnership lets SmugMug customers create, publish, share, market, and sell professional quality books.

SmugMug customers can use Blurb’s new SmugMug Slurper to automatically “slurp” full-resolution photos from their SmugMug account into Blurb BookSmart software. Users then create a book on their own, or invite others to contribute to a community book project that captures their shared passions and experiences.

To publish a book, users download Blurb’s free BookSmart software straight from Blurb.com. Customers can keep their books private or announce them to friends and family, and include them in Blurb’s public bookstore for others to see and purchase.

In this photo, the SmugMug team celebrates a profitable company.

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