Moving iPhoto photobook from a laptop to a desktop

I created an iPhoto picture book on my 2007 Macbook laptop. I have a new 2009 iMac desktop and would like to transfer the file from my laptop to my desktop. How do I do it? Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You have to transfer the entire library and run it from the new iMac. Books are virtual entities that are stored in the library's database file and can't be copied from one library to another. So copy the library from the laptop to the Desktop of the iMac, rename it "Book Library" and put it in the Pictures folder.
This tutorial may be of some interest to you: Old Toad's Tutorial #9a - Archiving an iPhoto Book for Use/Editing at a Later Date.

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