I — personally, as a reader — look at the back cover of a book, I don’t read the blurbs. I look to see who did the blurbing, and I go, “Huh, interesting,” but it has no effect on whether ...

The Large Landscape (13 x 11-inch) hardcover book, which we used for testing, starts at $68 with a dust jacket, with an image wrap cover available for an additional $2. Blurb review: Software and ...

One serious caveat though is that it’s significantly more expensive – our 12 x 12-inch photo book cost us $145.78 including delivery (roughly £112), which is almost double the price of Blurb ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Social media is changing the way writers are promoting their books. Author Rebecca Makkai talks about her decision to take a break from writing the blurbs commonly seen on the backs of book jackets.

Blurb is an affordable printing service that allows you to produce your own high-quality photo books. Offering a wide range of sizes, from a Lilliputian 13 x 13cm to a colossal 33 x 28cm, five ...

The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one would dispute that a good blurb has crucial ...

Sometimes, blurb writers don’t read the entire book before heaping praise on an author’s latest effort. For some readers, such accolades read as insincere or overwrought.

Sky Daddy, by Kate Folk We have an early contender for book jacket blurb of the year: Linda, mild-mannered star of Folk's debut novel, is constantly at the airport because she wants to get to know ...

As a reader, though, an interesting blurb can be as effective as a striking book cover, especially when you’re browsing in a bookstore, trying to decide between several tempting choices.