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Make Collaborative Photobooks With Inkubook
I stumbled upon Inkubook this morning and thought it was worth sharing. Inkubook provides a collaborative space where you can create a photobook with your friends and then send it to print once you are happy with the photos in the book.
Inkubook works with Flickr to grab photos. Basically you connect to your friends on Inkubook and then they can suggest photos to add to your photobook. The company offers a variety of book sizes along with hard- and soft-cover. Pricing starts at $24.95 per book and shipping begins at $9.
The service reminds me a bit of NY-based SharedBook. While I get the idea of moving away from printed photos, these books look like great gifts for family members and friends who aren’t computer people. They also work well to always remember a special trip or event.
It seems to me that Inkubook has a lot of potential for success. I know that in my family and my wife’s family people are obsessed with digital photos and photo sharing. Shutterfly has become incredibly popular among people I know for their photo book service.
There is still a gap between people who need a hard copy of a photo and those who don’t. Something like this would be good for the digital people (say the kids for example) to share pictures and and collaborate on a book for their parents (who probably still like the physical photographs.)
My wife has seven siblings and trying to get pictures from everyone to make a book can be a rough task, but being able to tie into Flickr and have friends and family suggest the pictures they want put in the book seems like a nice feature.
I’m going to have to play around with it some, but it could be something I’d recommend to the family.
Methinks it needs Facebook integration, eh? I read somewhere that the number of photos on Facebook vastly outstrips those in Flickr. Mind you, there are probably more resolution-type issues in Facebook.