Blurb offers prizes for best books in new competition

Blurb, a creative publishing and marketing platform for user-created books, has announced the Best Blurb Books competition.

Blurb users can enter under three categories - Family, Pets or Travel - with a grand prize winner in each category of $3,000, with a runner up winning $1,000.

People's Choice winners will receive Blurb Gift Cards.

Each category will be judged by an expert in that field says Blurb.

The travel section will be judged by Lori Barbely, Islands magazine, pets by Christopher Ameruoso fromPaw Print magazine and family by April Peveteaux of Babble.

Submissions will be accepted until the 22 October 2009. Users need to download the Blurb BookSmart 2.0 to get started.

More details can ne found here.

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