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Blurb
Who runs Blurb, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Print-on-demand self-publishing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Lulu
Measured from Blurb’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Blurb01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Blurb
Blurb blurb.com
Create and print custom books and magazines with Blurb’s professional book printing services. Perfect for photographers, self-publishers and creators.
Wikidata: Book publishing platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Blurb tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Blurb
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Blurb, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Global Book Printing, Publishing, and Technology Company | Lulu
Lulu is a publishing technology platform for on-demand book printing and global fulfillment, powered by APIs and ecommerce integrations.
Very close - 02
IngramSpark: Self-Publishing Book Company | Print & Distribute
IngramSpark is an online self-publishing company that allows you to print, globally distribute, and manage your print and ebooks. Self-Publish Like a Pro
Very close - 03
Mixbook | Create Custom Photo Books, Cards & Gifts – Free Designs
Make personalized photo books, cards, calendars & more in minutes with Mixbook Studio™. Easy AI-powered tools. 43K+ rave reviews. Shop picture books starting at $14.99!
Very close - 04
Draft2Digital
Very close - 05
Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding
Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.
Very close - 06
Snapfish | Personalized Gifts, Cards, Home Decor, Photo Books & More
Design and send the best personalized gifts, cards, home decor, photo books, and prints with Snapfish.
Very close - 07
Overnight Prints | Custom & Quick Online Printing Services Shop
Need online printing services? Overnight Prints is your online printing shop for fast, high-quality prints. Design and order your custom products online now!
Very close - 08
Printful: Custom Print On Demand & Dropshipping
Design and sell custom products online with print-on-demand dropshipping. Sign up for free and start an online store without inventory.
Very close - 09
Pic-Time: Online Photo Galleries for Professional Photographers
Pic-Time’s platform offers the finest online gallery space. Elevate your photos with a built-in print store, powerful marketing automation tools, slideshow creator, blog editor, and much more. Try Pic-Time Free!
Very close - 10
VistaPrint Official Website: Online Printing Services
VistaPrint online printing services help you create and order the best custom products: marketing materials, business cards, signage, promotional products, custom gifts, packaging and more.
Very close - 11
Manning
Manning publishes books, eBooks, video courses and liveProjects on programming, software engineering, AI, data science and other technology topics, written by practitioners and available in print, eBook and on liveBook.
Very close - 12
Online Printing Services: Professional Custom Printing
Online printing services to create high-quality business cards, stickers, postcards, and more. Professional custom printing by MOO, the best online print shop.
Very close - 13
book e-commerce website
Very close - 14
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 15
Pixieset: Client Photo Gallery, Website, CRM for Photographers
Build your photography business with Pixieset’s all-in-one platform: deliver client galleries, create websites, book clients, accept payments & more. Start free!
Very close - 16
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Very close - 17 HarperCollins harpercollins.com
Anglo-American publishing house
Very close - 18
Digital Publishing and Content Experience Platform | Joomag
Joomag is a leading Content Experience Platform for creating and distributing high-design content — magazines, catalogs, brochures, proposals and reports that are personalized and interactive.
Very close - 19
YUMPU - Publishing digital magazines worldwide
YUMPU releases magazines, documents and catalogs on the internet. Publish for free. Gain new readers and costumers worldwide.
Very close - 20
Zenfolio: Website & Gallery Solutions for Photographers
Build your photography business with Zenfolio. Our all-in-one solution offers a professional portfolio website, shareable client galleries, e-commerce, and workflow automation tools for photographers.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Blurb’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Blurb uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Blurb adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Blurb’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro page source: data-astro-cid-
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:69.25.104.64/26 ip4:66.150.244.128/26 ip4:64.30.155.0/24 i…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:69.25.104.64/26 ip4:66.150.244.128/26 ip4:64.30.155.0/24 i…
- Microsoft 365 MX blurb-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT v=spf1 ip4:69.25.104.64/26 ip4:66.150.244.128/26 ip4:64.30.155.0/24 i…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=2wRqY6IrIINLY7B8Qcp-qur9HsiRTO04g4gws…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=emH8I2akIku0wpO1UafaYBrRsPoXisuuvQTVwtskzAk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Apple Business · not on blurb.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on blurb.com 9/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on blurb.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on blurb.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- jQuery · not on blurb.com 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on blurb.com 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- OpenAI · not on blurb.com 5/20
- PHP · not on blurb.com 4/20