'The Photobook: A History' by Gerry Badger, describes a photo book as "a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content. A photo book is related to and also often used as a coffee table book". Photo books are a relatively new product category which provide customers with the capability to create their own coffee table style photo albums. Photo books are different to traditional photo albums in that each photo is printed directly onto the page instead of many individual photos being stuck to a page, making for a much slimmer album which is a lot easier to share. No more thick heavy photo albums with individual photos of a set size being added 3 to a page. The best part about these is that they are very easy to create and you have the freedom to design it in whichever way your creative juices direct you to. One of the easiest ways to get started is to simply download photobook software like 'My Memories Suite', 'Memory Mixer' or 'Picaboo', and get started. You can also visit websites like http://www.snapfish.com and http://www.albumworks.com for more ideas on how to create your very own photobook.
By Charles Combs
