Volume discounts

Customers placing volume orders of 250 or more books will receive one complimentary print on demand proof book prior to placing the volume order. Simply printing out the pages of your book design at home won't show you what the book will look like after the pages have been trimmed and bound. It is important to us that you know what to expect from your book before you make a significant investment in a Volume Order. Blurb is not liable for any mistakes that could have been caught with a proof book.

Our proof books are always a print on demand (POD) product.

If your order is of 999 books or fewer, your books will be printed POD, and so the proof book is representative of what you should expect with your Volume Order books.

If your order is of 1,000 books or more, your Volume Order will be printed using traditional offset printing methods as it offers cost savings to you. Because the cost to print a single proof book using offset is high and defeats the purpose of our Volume pricing, these proof books are also printed POD.

As you know offset printing uses a different printing processes than POD, so there will be some variance between the POD proof and offset books. No matter which process is used, there may be minor differences across different prints of the same books and/or across books printed by our different book-printing partners, including, but not limited to, slight variances in color fidelity and binding type. So, the variance between your offset Volume Order and POD proof is no different than the variance in books printed among our different print partners.

While we work very hard to keep our product as consistent as possible, these printing variations are considered normal and within industry specifications and are neither a manufacturing defect nor a defect in workmanship. Normal variations like these do not qualify for a reprint.

Visit the Blurb Shipping Page to get an estimate for shipping costs.

Enter the number of books you plan to order along with the country and postal code for the shipping address.

The shipping calculator will show the cost to ship your book(s) and the date you can expect to receive them. If more than one delivery date is displayed, then you will be able to select from those options during checkout. Note: Any local duties, customs, and taxes that apply must be paid by the recipient upon delivery. For orders of 1,000 or more books, we will provide you with a shipping estimate once you have an approved price quote and have confirmed your delivery address, trim size, cover type, and exact page count.

For orders of 200 to 399 books, production time is approximately 10 to 14 business days. For orders of 400 to 999 books, production time is approximately 12 to 14 business days. Orders for 1,000 or more books can take between 3 to 8 weeks to be produced. Do not forget to plan for shipping time, in addition to the production time.

Book production time for most books takes approximately 5 to 6 business days at all of our printers, here in the U.S. and in the Netherlands. If your order contains 200 books or more, you'll need to add 3 extra business days to your book's production time especially if you have a deadline to meet. Why? Larger orders may take longer because quality is important. Printing and binding issues occur with any manufacturing process, so the larger the order, the greater the odds that one of the books might not pass inspection. Book pages and cover materials travel in separate queues and then arrive at the end to be assembled. If one book has problems and needs to be reprinted, the rest of books are set aside until the reprint has passed inspection. So, if your order of 50 books is processing (printing and binding), and two of the books have manufacturing defects, these two books get reprinted, while the 48 books wait patiently. Once the two reprinted books join up with the rest of the order, the books will ship. We won't ship your books until the order is complete.

For orders valued less than $10,000, we accept payment via American Express, Discover, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal. We do not accept cash, checks, money orders, or Maestro or Electron cards.

If your order value totals more than $10,000, we may accept check or wire transfer payment, in addition to the above methods. Please note that full payment must be received before we can process an order.