blurb vs aperture books

[mojitomax]

in the acronyms of todays yoof, OMG!!!

i was in the middle of making a photobook in aperture of my girlfriend and mine's travels through europe in a campervan when i thought i'd check out blurb.

aperture was charging about £80 at the point i was at. i have about 85 pages in the book so i thought it would be a lot and it is the extra large hardcover book.

even though blurb were cheaper and have been recommended i liked that i could add maps of where we'd been in the paerture book really easily. i finished the book and went to checkout - £115!!!!!!! i nearly fell off my chair.

blurb would be charging about £50ish - they don't charge VAT which apple does!!

it's just a shame the book sizes are slightly different otherwise i could do the layout in aperture and print to pdf and convert to JPEG in preview and then upload to blurb.

Oh well, at least it will be pretty

[mojitomax]

I was confused about that too. I'm going to email apple and see what happens. Probably nothing

[mojitomax]

sgrimshaw said:

At that price I would have found a way to convert what I'd already done, or started again with Blurb.

I was going to but I'd have had to change nearly 90 pages with multiple images worth and I need it for 3 weeks time so I've bitten the bullet on this one