Flickr is adding a one-click photo book feature for its users, Yahoo's photo-sharing site
announced Tuesday.
Users need only to click the book icon on any of their sets, according
to Flickr, and the site will automatically generate a photo book. Flickr
is promising that the bound books are laid out to optimally showcase a
photographer's work.
That includes simple layouts, placement of one photo per page, and tools
that will "analyze, crop, position, and rearrange your photos to look
their best," the Flickr blog reads. Users can also go in manually and
make tweaks, delete images, or reorder the pages.
Starting next week, US users will actually be able to purchase
the books, which Flickr said are printed on premium photo paper. Users
outside the continental US will have to wait longer. "Please stay tuned.
We are working on bringing you Flickr Photo Books soon," the blog says.
The books can run from 20 to 240 pages, and they'll start at $35 for a
20-page book. It's 50 cents per page after that, according to Yahoo.
It's unclear what this new process means for Flickr's partnership with
HP's Snapfish, which was the source for Flickr photo books. Previously,
when users selected a photo set and then clicked on the photo book
option, Flickr would connect them to Snapfish. Now it's difficult to
surface that option. A Yahoo spokeswoman said the "Snapfish partnership
remains. This is entirely separate."
Yahoo won't say what vendor is actually powering the printing behind
these new photo books, or if it has plans to add any other printed
products, like T-shirts or mugs.
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