Bookemon is a photo book printer that allows you to publish your book for sale. The free software is also great for making books for your own use from scratch-- that is, of completely your own design.

While the website encourages people to share your books online, the option to share or sell a photo book online is still left completely up to you.

What Are We Reviewing?

The comments in this Bookemon review assume that you are not interested in selling your book, so that portion of the software and the website will not be reviewed, as most of our visitors at Make Your Own Photo Book are casual users, not sellers.

Making Bookemon Photo Books

There are three different ways to make books at Bookemon:

Start with a blank template,

Start with a document, or

Start with a template.

The blank template truly lets you add everything to the template and does not give you a design or theme to start with. You can choose a theme for suggestions and different clipart, but it is not like other printers that might give you a starting suggesting that you can then make changes. For this Bookemon review, this is probably my favorite option of the three.

Starting with a document allows you to design your photo book in another software and easily upload it to your book project.

The third way is to choose one of the templates that they provide. The templates are not as nice as ones that are provide by most other printer/publishers. There might be a template that easily fits into your purpose, otherwise you might need to start from scratch.

Bookemon Photo Book Software Review and Features

One of the coolest features of the Bookemon photo book software is that you can easily upload your own clipart. This is great for those scrapbookers who would like to use an embellishment from their own designs.

Bookemon also offers what they call "Thick Books". These softcover books allow you to use up to 460 pages.

There is extensive help documented online. If any of the commonly asked questions don't work you can send an email to support. I asked a question on a Sunday and received an answer almost immediately.

Bookemon Review Summary

In the end, if you are someone who wants to make a book with no design on your part, you probably shouldn't choose Bookemon as your photo book printer. If, on the other hand, you want to create a project that is very much your own from the start, then this photo book publisher/printer is really one that you should try.

Bookemon Photo Book Specifications

Paper Weight	80#
Max. # of Pages	100-460
Shipping for one book	$4.99/hardcover; $3.99/softcover
Mac Compatible?	Yes

Reviewed: March 2, 2010

Bookemon Photo Book Review

Comparative Photo Book Software Review

Background Themes	Wide array of background themes with complete flexibility of adding your own backgrounds.
Layout Variety	Moderate amount of suggested layouts with complete flexibility in creating your own.
JPG as a Background	Yes, very easy to do
Digi-Scrapbooking Friendly	Yes, it is very easy to use pages created in other programs and exported as jpg, pdf, or Word documents.
In-book Editing	No
Text - variety and Full Page	Can add text at will
Embellishments and Corners	Yes, wide variety of frames and masks. Clipart provided and you can add your own clipart.
Full-Page Bleed	Yes, if photo is used as a background.
Final Grade	A

For an explanation of the Feature Set Review

Photo Book Sizes

The prices given are based on a 20 page book with printing on both sides of the pages. Additional pages are available for an extra charge. The price given is the lowest price for that size category.

Hardcover
8.5x8.5 Picture Book	23.00
8.5x11	25.00
7.75x5.75	23.00
11x8.5	25.00
Softcover
8.5x8.5 Picture Book	10.00
8.5x11	13.00
7.75x5.75	10.00
Thick Books
5.5x8.5 Softcover Color Book - 48 pages	18.00
7x10 Softcover Color Book - 48 pages	18.00
8.5x11 Softcover - 100 pages	33.00
Black and White Books
5.5x8.5 Hardcover - 108 pages	20.00
8.25x11 Softcover - 48 pages	5.33
7x10 Softcover - 48 pages	18.00
5.5x8.5 Hardcover - 108 pages	20.00
7x10 Hardcover - 108 pages	23.00

For a more detailed pricing, please visit Photo Book Covers and Sizes

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