Create your own coffee table books of your favorite photo subject with MyPublisher Photobooks. These full-color photobooks include the ability to print a photo to the edge of the paper, just like a book or magazine, and come in a variety of sizes and capacities.
MyPublisher has great features like the ability to order reprints of your book at any point in the future--it's stored on their server--and ships in 4 days or less.
For our friend LeAnn, during her fight with cancer (she won!), we had friends email us pictures of fun times and encouraging words to include in the captions. Then we had it delivered to her house, completely unbeknownst to her.
The books start at $9.95 for 20 pages in a PocketBook size with up to 240 photos. Additional pages start at $.49.
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-Kate
I'd love for someone to do a side-by-side comparison of the quality of all these types of books (Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, My publisher, etc)
I've used Shutterfly after receiving an oversized print from a friend. The quality is great and prices are nice. Last holiday season, I tried their christmas cards, calendar and small book. Uploading is easy, layouts are very customizable and do offer full bleed images. I just tried their custom framing service for some enlarged prints, 16x20, and am very happy. Customer service has been great as well. They offer a ton of products to put your photos on, even jewelry.
I did a little comparison testing when I was creating the calendar, but a real test of several sites would be fantastic!
Slate actually did a comparison of albums produced using different websites a few months ago. I'm sure you could search for it.
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal also did a comparison sometime last year. If I remember correctly, he didn't think there was one clear winner but that Kodak's was somewhat ahead in options and ease of use. Even over Apple's, of which he is usually a very big fan. Definitely double check on wsj.com.