george_cleaver

Well, after giving up completely on printmyphotobook.com (no response from them whatsoever - and this is even before I gave them any money...), I managed to learn about another publisher:

www.blurb.com - you download a huge executable (37MB) named booksmart_BLURB_r1_1.2.1.8973.exe - which is still a Beta version and supports only one book orientation - landscape.

http://heritagemakers.com - looks attractive, but again you can work on your book online only. I actually tried it with their "test drive" option - and it is slow to death.

BTW, the Xerox iGen3 mentioned above is a $500,000 machine (at its most basic configuration) and is categorized as a digital printing press. Not your ordinary color laser printer... I am surprised that Lulu managed to provided quality that is inferior to MyPublisher's.

James, for various reasons, I cannot be online while arranging my photobooks. This is a technical limitation that many software vendors found a way around it and are providing solutions for it.

I am not looking for "owning software". I am merely looking for a way to compose my photobook while being offline - and either upload the entire finished book once it is completed or mail the company a CD (just like PrintMyPhotobook offers).

Do you know of other companies who offer that? Did I understand you correctly that iPhoto and Apreture can do that? If so, I am rushing to check this out... Not only I am not fixated on PrintMyPhotobook, I actually decided *not* to use their services, since given what I described in my first posting here, they seem suspiciously unreliable.

Thanks again for any tip you provide.

George

Well, I myself was looking for some feedback on PrintMyPhotobook, but so far found only this thread.

I needed to print some of my photos in bound books. Not for resale, just for family.

I compared the options provided in the original posting (by Deb Brown) and discovered that, of all services, only PrintMyPhotoBook provides downloadable software that is usable without having to be connected to the Internet while editing my photobook. Its software will also let you review the end result before uploading your photographs to the Internet. For me, this is the only way to go.

They also offer the book format that I want (8.6"x10"), while others provide limited selection - none of them to my liking.

So, I thought I found the perfect match for me.

However, when I tried to contact printmyphotobook.com with a technical question (via email), I received no answer.

I sent them a second email, but still no answer.

I looked for a different way to contact them, but they have neither phone number nor street address.

Well... the order I was about to make is several hundred dollars worth, but now I am hesitant to provide my credit card number to an unknown entity that has only web presence, no phone number, no street address, does not answer emails - and has no ratings or reviews anywhere on the web...

Since I have already invested quite some time organizing my photos into photobooks, using PrintMyPhotobook's software, I prefer getting

positive feedback about PrintMyPhotobook.com, so that I can submit the order with peace of mind.

But if that doesn't happen within a few days, of course I will have to start looking elsewhere.

Do you know anything about PrintMyPhotobook.com?

Thanks,

George