MyPublisher.Com

I just want to share my experience of MyPublisher.com. Every year my lovely mother in law expects a photograph of her gran children - not much to ask for I know - after all I am a photographer. For as long as I have had children this has always been a last minute scramble - after all I had paying clients to attend to first. Well last year I resolved never again and I set about working on the 2008 present on the 25th of Dec 2007. My intention was to create a collection and present them as a book. I wasn't sure how but I was confident it could be done. All went swimmingly throughout the year - images were captured at family events, as the boys played or simply as we went about our daily life. Nice pictures for Granny - some even taken by her granchildren! I then came across MyPublisher.Com. Although I never heard of them I downloaded their software and began to mess with a layout. Before I knew it I had half year of images laid out in book and it looked pretty good. The year progressed and we went into autumn armed with summer holidays and back to school images. During the past few months two close relatives passed away and now the book has a significance that I didn't appreciate when I set out. My aunt passed away and was buried last week. I came home from her funeral and finished the book with a single image of her taken on Christmas day last year. I uploaded the images expecting not to get the books till the new year - but that was OK - it had been a tough month. Within 24 hours an email arrived in my inbox from MyPublisher.Com. My books had been printed and were waiting to be assembled and dispatched. There was a tracking button for Fedex. Today my books arrived and they are perfect. So a big thank you to all at MyPublisher.Com - keep up the good work.

Comments

[Tony Redmond]

I've been using MyPublisher for the last four years and they have steadily increased their quality and performance. The software used to be a tad buggy and you'd experience "hangs", especially when dealing with books with more than 50 pages. I don't see the problem any more and I commonly build books up to the 100 page maximum (and would like to go to more pages).

MyPublisher also supports different page sizes. I have not used the largest page size (14 x 11, I think), but have seen some spectacular books produced in this format. Nice leather covers too if you like...

I've tried other book builders such as Shutterfly, HP Snapfish, and Blurb. Shutterfly is closest to MyPublisher. Snapfish is OK if you are able to work online all the time (a major advantage of MyPublisher is that you can work offline for most of the process). Blurb is nice but more expensive.

- Tony