![]() On the show, the startup scored a deal from Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary for a $150,000 investment for 80% licensing rights only. The smaller startup is probably best known for as the photo book app from TV’s “Shark Tank,” where founders Julie and Brian Whiteman pitched their uniquely designed photo books, which have a groove in the side making them flexible – and also cheaper to print. Just to prove that sometimes we use the products that we review, I've printed a number of books from Shutterfly.GrooveBook, a photo-printing app and subscription service that creates personalized photo books featuring up to 100 of your photos, shipped monthly, has been acquired by photo printing giant Shutterfly for $14.5 million. (I received one when I bought a camera at Best Buy two weeks ago.) Shutterfly also offers a sales page for specials and discounts. For a limited time, photo products bought at Best Buy come with a Shutterfly code for a free book. In the past couple of years Shutterfly has acquired the Kodak Gallery, card seller Tiny Prints, ThisLife and, most recently, MyPublisher, another photo book publisher. The limitations include that you cannot edit projects created on the iPad on your Mac, nor can you edit projects created on the Mac on your iPad, so for now, projects are device-dependent. Shutterfly Photo Story works on the iPad 2 and above and the iPad mini with iOS 6 or later. Memorability offered audio in books first, but alas, their books can be shared, but not printed. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch notes that Shutterfly is not the first service to offer in-book audio. For creating a book without audio, Shutterfly for iPad is also available from the iTunes store. As with Shutterfly's other photo book products, the book can be shared on Facebook or printed as an actual hard copy. Shutterfly Photo Story imports photos from Facebook, Instagram, Shutterfly or your iPad Photo Stream. Less-expensive and small-sized books are also available, but do not include the new audio feature. Pages can be added for an additional fee and there is a choice of a hard or soft cover for your book. You can only order an 20-page, 8 x 8-inch, 8 x 11-inch or 12 x 12-inch book with audio. Printed book prices range from US$29.99 to $59.99. Shutterfly offers a choice of 10 different styles and three book sizes. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. ![]() Readers scan the code to open a digital version of the book and listen to the audio, according to Shutterfly. For the hard cover books, a QR code is printed on the back. When you share your photo book via email or Facebook, a clickable icon appears on pages with embedded audio. A "record" button appears on each page as you create your photo pages in Shutterfly Photo Story, and you can choose to add one audio file for the entire book or add audio to every page. A QR code printed on the photo book lets readers hear the recorded messages. Your photo album becomes an instant story, engaging all your relatives and friends in a more intimate and personal experience. ![]() Unlike other photo books, Shutterfly Photo Story lets you add 30-second audio messages to each page. Today it launched a free iPad application called Shutterfly Photo Story, which lets you create your own photo books - with a difference. Shutterfly, Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based photo-publishing site, wants to become your one-stop shop for printed photo products.
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