A missed opportunity? Blog to Book publishing for the non-authors.

[Emily Myers]

My old college roomates and I collaborate on a private blog together. We use it as a means to stay in touch, share some pictures and have a memory for down the road.

Anther contributor and I decided we'd like to put together a bound version of the blog, one year at a time and distribute one tangible copy to each one of us for 2008.
I found this site http://www.blurb.com - thought, JACKPOT! I can easily 'slurp' our blog into book form, play with some formatting and Voila! It is done.
Not. So. Fast.

Blurb is a great product, and an easy to use tool- from all I can tell so far. However, after getting really excited about this, I found out that it only supports Typepad or LiveJournal blogs. This was a real bummer because our blog lives on blogger.com

So I started doing more searching- thinking there has to be one out there. I found http://www.blogbinders.com - click through and see the Blogger logo as a valid format. But what is this?! Going out of business? PWAH?

I'm not sure where the greater missed opportunity is:
1) that I didn't think of this sooner to use Blog Binders
2) that blogger.com doesn't have it's own blog-to-book utility as a revenue stream (either their own creation or partnering with someone else)
3) that blurb.com doesn't support blogger.com

All options mean someone doesn't get my money. Money I was ready, and eager, to give away.

Certainly, I can put more time and effort into making each page in photoshop and loading it into one of the many photobook programs, but the ease of use in this blog-to-book program was a dream come true.

Maybe someone can point me in the direction of one that will take my blog and help me turn it into a simple book for quick reproduction. I haven't found it yet.