"An ode to the beauty and dignity of the human spirit, " says a cover blurb.
"It was almost like a blurb written on the back of a novel, "he recalls.
This is the Facebook equivalent of retweeting, since all of your friends are notified that you liked the blurb.
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What caused so many influential, left-of-center policy leaders to take up their pens and blurb a book so exuberantly?
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Color, then, is another marketing tool, like an enticing image or well-written blurb on the back of a cereal box.
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Its French site grew 101% in seven months and Blurb will be launching a localized version in Germany in June 2011.
"The time has come for UK graduates to speak up, share their experiences and hope for change, " says the group blurb.
Blurb is now considering opening up into the so-called BRIC countries as well as expanding operations in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
The post is a blurb for an upcoming MIX keynote by Dean Hachamovitch, who runs the Internet Explorer development team at Microsoft.
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As Blurb reaches for global growth, that passion is likely to help Gittins achieve her ambitious goals and generate a return for her investors.
People magazine ran a blurb about her flagship product a wallet she designed to neatly organize cash, coupons and change in its December 2009 gift guide.
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Royall filed a defamation suit against Main, her publisher, a legal prof who wrote a blurb for the book, a reviewer and two newspaper companies.
That seems like quite a jacket blurb for a volume that would probably land in the trash can if it crossed a publisher's desk today.
The first such blurb hit the Yahoo ticker at 9:45 a.m.
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Store wrote a blurb of endorsement on the book's back cover.
Gittins realized that if there was a chance that Blurb might be sued for copyright infringement the company would never be able to raise venture capital.
Others have been noted to take it rather more seriously of course: I recall one blogger proudly using his ranking in the blurb for his book.
Another one called "Story Album" automatically creates a photo album with your pictures and lets you order a printed version through a partnership with publishing service Blurb.
You see a little blurb in the newspaper, think about whether you have any connection to that company or institution, and move on to the Style section.
Self-publishing service Blurb will print your blog into a hardcopy book, though you have to create it, and unlike Hyperink, you have to pay for it.
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We each take a few seconds to consider a one hundred forty character blurb and then hammer out our reactions by way of a Tweet or status update.
The blurb on the back cover said that the writer had worked for years as a tour guide in Cuba and Africa and that his travels had influenced his writing.
But if you flick to the technical blurb at the back of the document, the researchers themselves admit that the data was partial, used research conducted differently in different countries, and was quite old.
"If you're an Indian reading this book in English, it's probably because of Thomas Macaulay, " says the front cover blurb on a new biography of a man who foisted the Queen's language on India.
But Mr. Bush offered more than hospitality: He provided insider input on "The Book of Fate, " a political thriller whose characters include an ex-POTUS, as well as on two subsequent novels and even contributed a blurb.
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The blurb from TfL about the lanes makes much of the fact they continue through junctions - but that does nothing to stop some trucks and vans repeatedly turning left and cutting across the cyclists.
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