Warning. Blurb books. Questionable business practices.

I have twice ordered books through Lightroom's Blurb service. Blurb is offering two delivery models. A standard one and one which should deliver faster but at a much higher price. Both I used the stadard and got a fast delivery - prior the fast delivery dates!! That means, if I had payed the fast delivery fee, it would have been for nothing but for the pocket of Blurb. I find this marketing/business model unacceptable. Adobe should do something about that with his "business partner"

dj_paige wrote:
Adobe should do something about that with his [sic] "business partner"
We are not Adobe here in this forum, we are Lightroom users.
You should notify Adobe of this, and see what their reaction is.
Agreed! Plus, it was Adobe who decided to deal with Blurb and only provide that company for uploading directly within LR for book printing. This isn't like Apples products whereby they control everything (upload, printing etc) so if you have a beef with that part of the product, you have a beef with Apple. In this case, Adobe has somehow entered a partnership with Blurb and they should hear from their users how that partnership is going.

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provide your views or help me to find resources that will clear my query....
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Anand,
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I'm posting this per Julieanne Kost's request following an email exchange regarding this topic. I am in the process of making a photobook using Lightroom and discovered when I reached page 240 that I couldn't add any additional pages, much to my surprise. I was surprised because I knew from Blurb's website that the limit for standard paper is 440 pages and mistakenly assumed that this limit would also apply within Lightroom. I did more research online and found many others being surprised by this limitation after spending hours and days on a photo book. I will likely work around this by exporting from Lightroom to .jpg and uploading to Blurb, but that will take extra time and effort and reduces the appeal of using Lightroom to create a Blurb book. I had also tried exporting from Lightroom to .pdf only to find that the .pdf format exported by Lightroom is not compatible with the requirements of Blurb.
My recommendation in the short term would be for Adobe to warn Lightroom Book Module users up front that Lightroom's page limits differ from those if going directly through the Blurb website.
My recommendation in the longer term would be for the Adobe engineers to make whatever changes are necessary in the Lightroom code to allow for 440 pages when standard paper is selected (and more specifically to make the page limits match the limits of Blurb's actual books). If there is any way to impress upon Adobe management the importance of this, I believe it would be greatly appreciated by many Lightroom/Blurb users.

I agree with that (though a 330 page Blurb book would break the bank :-)
I would also like to see the LR book module allow at least all the same Cover Templates as Booksmart does - I feel really constrained with both of them but much more so with LR...At least let us Drop a Full bleed finished cover on to the front and back covers!
Lately, I do all the page making in PS, move to LR to manage the page numbering and then export to jpg and ingest to Blurb to make my books...pretty kludgy, isn't it?

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I want to know the best business practices suggested by SAP to improve client revenues.

11,
Your question is vague. For an equally vague answer, try the SAP Best Practices web site.
http://help.sap.com/bestpractices
ERP Baseline BP Building blocks, localized for India, can be found at
http://help.sap.com/saap/sap_bp/BL_ERP605_IN/html/Content_Library_BL_EN_IN.htm
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DB49

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We have an account with a book of business. The account has 20 contacts and each contact has 2 opportunities associated with it. If a user has access and can see the account, will they be able to see the details of 20 contacts and 40 opportunities associated with the account without adding the books of business to those contacts / opportunities, or for a user to access all the records, all records need to have a book of business associated?

Thanks for the clarification. The user still cannot actually open the contact or opportunity that is tied to an account even though the account record has a book of business. I played with the related information section for the Account Record type and the still received errors when they click on a contact or opportunity.
I then update the contact and opportunity with the book of business and they were able to click and see the details.
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I was just notified that I was denied a price adjustment on my order for the Ecobee3 Wireless Thermostat. I had purchased it for 206.99 and a few hours later the price went down to 179.99 which is $27 lower than the price I had bought it for. I was told that the reason for the denial in the price adjustment was because I used a 10% off mover's coupon on my initial order.
If the item was delivered in time, I could have returned the item and re-purchased it with my wife's 10% mover's coupon. It makes no sense that I would have to go through the hassle of doing this instead of having a price adjustment.
Now I see the item is out of stock at my local store and online and I can't even do the return and re-purchase at $157 ($180 less $18 coupon less $5 reward card) due the price not showing in the local BestBuy system.
This definitely seems like a shady business practice. All other major online retailers (Target, Staples, Amazon) would have adjusted the base price of my order and I would have been credited the $24 without a hassle.
Please tell me how I can escalate this issue as I feel mistreated as a loyal BestBuy customer. My order number is {removed per forum guidelines}.

Hello LightC,
Best Buy's Price Match Guarantee and movers coupon are great ways to ensure that you get the best price on products that you'll need to settle in your new dwelling. You ask a great question!
As poprex911 mentioned, the two offers cannot be combined as coupons may not be used with a price match. Per our Price Match Guarantee:
Our Price Match Guarantee does not cover: Any financing offers, bundle offers, free items, pricing errors, mail-in offers, coupon offers...
I regret that I do not have better news for you, but I hope this helps. Thank you for writing to us.
Sincerely,

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Major issues with rendering a book to Blurb from Lghtroom 4.4. I have printed this book once a couple months ago as a test. Everything as perfect.
Now that I'm ready to order the final book a good portion of my images seem to be offline and not rendering even though not one image is has been moved from it's original folder or is giving me a red exclamation point as a warning.
While rendering the book to Blurb it is stopping page by page, image by image and I am having to re-open, re-upload, and re-color edit the images one by one. What is happening? I need to send this 64 page book to print today. Has this happened to others? Please help!

Information that would be helpful in finding the issue(s):
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1) Was the Blurb book created in LR4.4 and you now have LR4.4, or did you update to LR4.4.1?
2) OS version
3) Where are the image files stored: Local hard drive, external hard drive?
4) What exact procedure are you using inside LR to send the book to Blurb?
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I made a Blurb book through Lightroom 5, on another computer, backed it up on an external hard drive and tried to import it into my imac. I got the picture files, but could not get the book I had worked on. How do I find my book?

I made a 'Blurb' book using Lightroom on a computer that was not mine. I backed up the book on an external hard drive and then tried to import the book into my imac. I wasn't able to retrieve my book. The photos I used for the book project are there, but the 45 page book I made is not there.
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Poor business practices and customer services

Best Buy, that's a LIE! Shoppers beware! I purchased a Sony theatre system from Best Buy, store #251 at 8290 W. Bell Rd, Glendale, Arizona, which was on sale for $249 ($10 less expensive than Walmart), 12-days prior to my wife's birthday. I gave it to her on her birthday and attempted to return it within the 14-days of actually giving it to her, but past the 14 days from original purchase. I brought the item back to the same store and Best Buy told me they won't accept the return and for me to just keep it, they will not accept a return. It was in perfect working condition, but for some reason they said even if it wasn't working I had to give it to their 'Geek Squad' to repair it. Even If it wasn't working I would've wanted a new replacement under 1-year warranty. This was something very strange I never heard of before from any retailer. It was working fine, so this wasn't an issue, but I was puzzled to hear them say something about their replacement policy. Wow, watch out when you buy a product, you never know if it's new, used or repaired! I also contacted customers service by telephone on several occassions and they regurgitated their written policy of no returns past 14-days. I explained that I am a totally disabled veteran with limited income, plus my wife has been battling cancer that spread to her lungs and that she has been undergoing chemotherapy, plus she was hospitalized three days the week prior and two days the next week and several additional times since, due to the chemo treatments. I explained to them I believe they should be flexible and compassionate, use good will and good faith to accept our return because of these circumstances beyond our control. I asked them, what is someone to do when they purchase an item, that's on sale, in advance of someone's birthday, Christmas, anniversary, wedding, etc., and it's past the 14-day return policy and they try to return it. I received no answer. After requesting to speak with a supervisor and explaining all this information and requesting they allow us to return the item, Best Buy stopped all communication with us! We haven't heard a word from them and we are now left with the Sony system we cannot use. They show total disregard for both my wife's and me and totally lack of customer service and appreciation in the entire matter. They seem to be only concerned with the bottom line, greed and Money! I'm totally disgusted with their policies and business practices. They don't care about the customer, only the bottom line, lining their pockets with our hard earned money! I may have saved $10 at Best Buys price of $249 versus Walmarts price of $259, but it cost us $270 for a product that is useless to us, just becuse they will not allow us to return the item. cheaper doesn't mean BEST BUY! I never had a problems returning any items to Walmart!!!

Hello Ken1,
I was very disheartened to read of your wife's condition and I my best wishes go out to her. I also wish to thank you for your service and sacrifice for our country. I was further dismayed to read that your intended gift of the home theater system didn't meet your needs and that you weren't able to return it as expected. Certainly causing you aggravation was never our goal.
As published on your original receipt, our website, and posted in your local Best Buy store, our Return & Exchange Promise allows for a return or exchange of a product within 15 days of purchase (30 days for My Best Buy Elite members and 45 days for Elite Plus members). Outside of this time frame, we are unable to offer a return or exchange.
I'm grateful that you took the time to write to us and for your feed back on our Return & Exchange Promise.
Sincerely,
John|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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Blurb Book in Lightroom 5 on my Mac disappeared after 3 days of work. Where can I find a backed up copy via Time Machine or anywhere else?

Blurb Book in Lightroom 5 on my Mac disappeared after 3 days of work. Where can I find a backed up copy via Time Machine or anywhere else?

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>>> [email protected]<[email protected]> 7/9/2014 6:41:AM >>>
Sorry, wasn't sure which to post in.
>>> Simon Flood<[email protected]> 7/9/2014 6:02:AM >>>
On 08/07/2014 18:00, [email protected] wrote:
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i just wanted to know how to configure the workflow for making this condition satisfy:
Top Management grants access to a custom object to the sub-ordinate by adding into custom object team, i want the associated account, associated contacts also accessible to him apart from the custom object.
what i though i would pack account and related contact information in book of business and assign it to the sub-ordinate automatically when his name is added in custom-object team.
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Uday,
I dont think this would be possible.
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