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"MyBooks.jp": BizPal blog binding service

We happily accept orders for any number of copies—even if you only want just one!
Welcome to our blog binding service.

MyBooks.jp is blog-binding service affiliated with many of Japan's major blog sites. We'll turn your blog data into an attractive paperback booklet (74-by-105 mm).

Easily make a bound copy of any blog that supports MT files. Simply export the blog into an MT text file and upload it to us. We will compose it in PDF form, and you can view the results and decide whether to go ahead with binding. If you are not pleased the first time, you can try again...and again, and again.

We happily accept orders for any number of copies-even if you only want just one! Welcome to our blog binding service.

We offer 24 different cover designs, and you can insert original photos. We have already handled a wide variety of blogs, including: birth and baby journals; travel diaries, wedding journals, haiku and poetry anthologies; pet journals. Our customers are young and old, male and female, married and single. Some order only 1 copy, while others order 30 or more. We all know what it feels like to read blogs on the web, but viewing, holding, and sharing a printed blog can be a new and interesting experience. Why not give it a try?

We accept orders of even a single copy. You select the typeface and print orientation (horizontal or vertical). If you like, you can use large print (B5 size). Print in color, or black-and-white.

We handle blogs created for Cocolog(@nifty), Livedoor Blog, SeeSaa, MovableType, TypePad, and Hatena Diary, and will happily provide you with a PDF version free of charge. For more information (in Japanese only), click here.

We accept orders of even a single copy.

Specifications

Supported blogs Blogs on all affiliated sites (Excite, goo, and many others); any blog that supports MT files.
Cover Select from 24 covers (92, if color variations are counted). May also include original photographs.
Sizes Pocket (A7); paperback (A6); standard (B6); large (B5)
Typefaces Select from 6 Japanese typefaces.
Paper types Color, monochrome (select cover and inner type separately)
Printing options Title; author; period covered; blog's URL; foreword (title, text, date display, signature); table of contents; alignment of dates; page breaks: indentation; comments; trackbacks; color printing
Type of binding Soft, hard; book jacket also available
  • For pricing and other details, go to MyBooks.jp.
  • Offerings are subject to change without notice.

About MyBooks.jp

"MyBooks.jp" is a blog binding service that merges Obun technical expertise with East Company's business-oriented "BizPal" communication tools. Specifically, Obun contributes high-quality server-side typesetting capabilities and web-service linkage expertise, while BizPal supplies powerful blog support and social networking capabilities. The two companies have come together under the virtual company name Obunest to provide this new type of service.

Today, blogging has become a daily activity for millions of people, and the production of blog-based printed materials has become a new social phenomenon. Many bloggers now want to create and retain copies of their blogs in printed form. MyBooks.jp is here to meet their needs.

Affiliated Blog Portals (As of 1/13/09)