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We're pleased to announce the launch of our new premium laminated hard cover photobooks. These make great keepsakes and long-lasting holiday gifts. Turn your special photos of family, friends and memorable events into beautiful custom hard cover photobooks.

We print your images on premium glossy paper using layouts that feature from one image up to 20 images per page. Simply select the desired layout and our online application automatically builds your book from your selected images, including optional image titles and descriptions. And you can personalize your book's cover by dragging and dropping your favorite images onto the cover and adding your own text.

A 20 page book starts at just $29.99 and additional pages are only $0.75 per page up to a maximum of 120 pages. Make your own hard cover photobook today.

Our new square prints are great for scrapbooking, craft projects or just as something different. With the same great print quality as our standard rectangular prints, square prints make an interesting alternative to normal print formats.

Square prints are available in several sizes:
5" x 5" — $0.79/ea
6" x 6" — $1.49/ea
8" x 8" — $2.49/ea
12" x 12" — $6.99/ea

Our new interactive shipping calculator lets you estimate what it will cost to ship your order before you place it. Simply enter in the products you wish to purchase along with the ship-to address. The calculator will return the estimated shipping to the selected location via the available shipping methods, such as ground and next day. This makes it easy to determine the most cost-effective shipping method based upon the desired time frame for delivery.

There is no denying that digital photography is some pretty awesome technology. But the venerable photo album still has its advantages; for example, you don't need a computer to view your photos. Plus photo albums are convenient, highly portable, anyone can use them, and they're great for sharing. Have the best of both worlds by creating your own custom photobooks from your digital images.

And with our volume discounts*, photobooks make great personal Christmas gifts. Now you can afford to give photobooks to everyone on your list (and you don't even have to go to the mall).

Log into your regular photosharing site to start creating your photobooks. (And if you don't have a photosharing site, you can now upload your images directly to our servers. See the previous post "Direct Upload Your Photos to QOOP" for more details.)

*Notes: Volume pricing does not apply to mini photobooks. All prices are in US dollars. Prices shown are representative for a 20-page book; additional pages can be added at same discount rate, which will be automatically calculated at checkout. Volume discounts apply to multiple copies of the same book; single copies of multiple different books are not eligible for volume discounts.

If you keep a blog on Movable Type, TypePad, or WordPress you can now easily print a bound book of your postings using our BlogPrinting.com site.

 While there isn't direct print support for blogs on the Blogger platform at this time, it's relatively quick and easy to port a blog from Blogger to WordPress and print from there.

Our new mass uploader lets you quickly and easily upload an entire group of images to QOOP. No more hunting through a whole list of images and selecting each one individually! And the progress bar clearly shows the status of the upload, so you can quickly verify that the upload is progressing and see a visual represenataion of how long it will take.

The mass uploader makes it super easy to create theme-specific photobooks. Simply organize the images you'll want in each photobook into individual folders, then use the mass uploader to upload the contents of each folder directly to QOOP and build your individual photobooks.

The mass uploader is also great for making backup copies of all your images to help prevent loss in the event of a fire or natural disaster. Use the mass uploader to upload your images to QOOP, then select Backup Disks from the product list to burn your images onto CD or DVD. (And for added security, burn multiple sets and keep separate copies with friends or family.) Check it out!

 With our new holiday card themes, you can turn any image into a unique holiday card. We provide more than 10 different holiday-themed templates, which are available in both 4" x 8" and 5" x 7" sizes. Simply select your size and the image to go with the theme you choose, then drag-and-drop the image onto the template. A preview will show you what your image will look like with your chosen theme. Don't like the combination? It's easy to go back and choose a different image or theme—or both—until you have exactly the right look.

Once you have the perfect combination, we print your cards and ship directly to you, along with blank envelopes for mailing your cards. Our holiday theme cards make a fun alternative to sending out boring generic commercial cards. Create yours today.