Challenges have arrived ...
Hello!
We’ve been working on our challenge software for several months now and today we’re taking the wraps off. You can see an example of the challenge software here and you can see a summary of all challenges on RedBubble here. The thinking behind challenges is that they should be fun, a way for you to discover new work and a catalyst for action.
The challenge software will be available to any group that would like it – just e-mail Jo and she’ll make it happen.
We’ve also been working on RedBubble books behind the scenes – and today Paul is releasing the first RedBubble book. The book can be purchased here. The thinking behind this limited release is for us to test the quality (which we’re very happy with) and logistics before we hit the go button on books more generally. The timing on the site wide release of books is yet to be locked down – it really depends on how long other things take and how quickly I can hire some more people to help us build the website faster.
On that front – Xavier and Peter are moving to San Francisco in two weeks. We’ll be looking to hire a few folks to keep us company … at the moment we’re looking to hire an Office Manager and a range of technical folks (Front End Developer and Back End Developer) so we can build faster. If you’re living in San Francisco and would like to know more drop Peter an e-mail and I can send you the job descriptions.
Ciao,
tkrosevear
WOW, how exciting – heading to check out links – thanks so much for taking care of us Bubblers ;)
Colin Tobin
There seems to be an error when hitting the ‘Calculate Shipping’ button.
:(
shanghaiwu
BRILLIANT/love the voting system
Nichole Schoff
Woo hoo!
shanghaiwu
BRILLIANT/love the voting system
Kathleen Stephens
San Francisco…lived there many years ago. Lucky Zavier and Peter! This is all great news!
shanghaiwu
Oh it’s all happening at
REDBUBBLE
TODAY
Darren Stones
Books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Writers have something to aim for.
Hip hoo bloody ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Julian Escardo
Congrats on the expansion and the possibility of being able to edit (and sell) books via Redbubble in the future!
SnowDog
Is San Francisco near Canada? umm errr
Love the book idea !!!! Wish you had it sooner but I understand!
thickblackoutline
WOW! the book is stunning! i can’t wait :)
Cathie Tranent
Wow! Big day today.
Swing Dancing USA here comes Xavier!
Teresa Zieba
Wow, San Francisco…. and books….. Both sound really good. And you’re moving closer to Canada. That’s wonderful. Teresa
Donna Adamski
Awesome. Goooo RB!
tinhearts
thank you for all your efforts for us!
love, carol
Jennifer Woodward
It all sounds fantastic… I really like the way the site is heading, and I really appreciate all the hard work you guys must have put in straightening that software out – must have been a bit of a headache for sure… well done!! :-)
Mark Ramstead
A book would be very cool…
Vinko
The book looks awesome. That’s something to look forward to definitely. Looks reasonably priced too. Nice work RB!
Colin Tobin
Nevermind what I said about the error before, it’s fixed now.
Beth Lambert
The books will be awesome…will certainly help my business out ;)
jemimalovesbigted
bloody brilliant!
Xavier Shay
@colin: sorry about that, is all fixed now
@cathie: “Swing Dancing USA here comes Xavier!”
very excited, the scene in SF is huge :D
Dawne Olson
Love love LOVE the idea of being able to produce and write books!! Way da go RB!
Chris R
that’s great, thanks
solareclips~Ju...
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!
Elysia Ranking
Books would be an awesome thing!!! Ive been hopeing to get to make a book on here for so long!!
Miron Abramovici
Very cool! But the software should allow viewing every photo in the book – I need to see what I buy! Also it would be good to provide several options on the number of pages. Will RB books be price-competitive to those on blurb.com?
R. Jason Smith
It really sounds like RB is expanding at a rapid, yet careful pace… Keep up the good work guys!
Sensiworld
Great idea a book !!!
budrfli
this is all so awesome!
i am so impressed!
thank you for continuing o strive to make this place greater han it is allready—-which is quite a challenge in itself
eon .
I want to order 30 Books Now of my work…....Can I? ( ; – ))
Just tell me how much is cost per book PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Samantha Goode
The book looks really beautiful – what a great idea.
Adam de la Mare
Scorchio!!
Books… Brilliant :)
caanan
That book looks fantastic! What a great idea! If they get the go ahead, I would like to see some burlesque/retro books from all the wonderful burlesque/retro photographers on here. A collection of the best cat pics (I miss my cat). And a collection of Ellen’s fantastic musical rats.
Bring them on! :o)
AngelArtist
Does that mean we can make our own books on RedBubble, and sell them? I was REALLY hoping for that! =)
Phil Thomson IPA
Fantastic news, guys and gals !!! You just keep getting better and better!! The challenge software is wonderful(a whole lot easier to use) and the books look superb, very classy!! Can’t wait to be able to produce our own books of our own images, instead of having to use other software, we can do it all inhouse.
Darren Stones
Good luck in the U.S., Peter and Xavier.
rightasrain
Thanks for all the hard work. So RB staff is in the USA? Just curious. Not sure what was meant by “If you’re living in San Francisco I can send you the job descriptions.”
Jacqueline Baker
oooooooh a book….....the sweetie shop just got bigger….....more eye candy!!!!
Alison Jane Rice
An inhouse bookstore at last … yippeeee!
Faizan Qureshi
Books, challenges… oh my my!!!
Stop in Europe for a bit guys ;)
Zack Nichols
I lived in San Francisco in the 90’s – incredibly amazing place. The vibe will spread throughout the bubble quickly. Looking forward to the books. Thanks for all you do.
StacyLee
Welcome to the US guys :) Sure you’ll love it :)
Samuel Durkin
great stuff
Lelia Thomas
Oh my God, books. THANK YOU!
AlienVisitor
The challenge button is great,should really bring a group “together”.
I think public calendars would have been better than books,but…
“May you create well and prosper”
Alienvisitor’s Imagi – Nation
AV
Dreamcoat
Can’t wait to see books being released to everyone. Excellent and I’m sure (as with all other RedBubble Products) the quality is outstanding. Good work Team.
Paul McClintock
Books!
Cyndianne
San Francisco-great, when you need a break come up to the Wine Country! (I live in Windsor, it’s gorgeous here.)
picketty
book looks great…what will be the base line cost for the artist?
Aimelle
great news !
will you consider french litterature (or any other language) or just english ?
mikej
Great news! Keep rolling RB
coppertrees
Wonderful news love the greatness of RB
Leanna Lomanski
I love the way you guys just keep forging ahead!! Fantastic news….........I’m happier and happier to be here.
Beth Mills
Books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nira Dabush
Best of luck!!!!!!!!!! in all that you do
mazal – tov!
Karen Cougan
well that was enough to get out of my bed for….........very exciteddddddd
xkc
lightsmith
I can learn to use pipes or skates or girdles or whatever you guys use in a matter of hours. I designed, wrote and implemented a content management system in 2 weeks without any prior knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Apache or Linux. Anything to get the books rolling (oh and a little bit of money rolling LOL).
lightsmith
Just checked out the book….. looks pretty damn impressive!
Patricia Anne ...
Love this place, thanks :)
nofrillsart
The book looks excellent you guys! well done.
Simon Sherry
The book looks fantastic (cannot WAIT to be able to put something together myself!) Great stuff!
Ben Ryan
Oh, in case no-one has noticed it yet, you can now re-order your sets on BubbleSites, as well as rename them (including leaving them blank).
Kenny Gulley Jr.
California ay? Well…that just gives us, redbubble, deviantart, facebook, google, apple, yahoo( flickr), ebay, myspace…oops sry
Hey, join my group California Sound since your headed ths way :D
Paul Louis Vil...
Good luck with the move Peter and Xavier!
...and Paul, that book looks magnificent! :D
inge
when i have ALL my shots on RB I WANT TO MAKE A BOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!
YEHAAAAA GREAT WORK GREAT NEWS
bicozikan
I want to make a book too!
I can’t wait until they’re offical!
C J Lewis
Thanks RB staff…the Challenges format is great…and, Paul’s book looks terrific…does it have an ISBN for retail as well?
Flic Manning
Looks great! Have you thought of books in reference to writing by any chance?
berndt2
Book. Aw yeah. Book.
Pomgonwalkabout
Fantastic,
I can see it now… A ‘Pomgonewalkabout’ coffee table book. even if its just to stop the table from wobbling
Marilyn Harris
Brilliant!!! The book idea sound great!!! Good one!!!
saleire
You guys will love San Fran…..it’s a heavenly place!! Woooooooohoooooo!!!! And the book…...yep…..great idea!!!!
Joaquin Loyzaga
once again you guys have excelled with your advancing of the bubble!
will you make corganising the 9 pics on your overview easier soon?
awaterhouse
its all just so exciting!!!
Wendy Slee
well done! and I am SO looking forward to seeing what you can do with the books! Blurb have done an amazing job (the books are beautiful quality) but turns out to be way too expensive as a marketing potential…..
So if you can do better…..I can’t wait!
Denzil
The books look fantastic, and well done to everyone for all your hard work to make the Bubble such an excellent place to be. Travel well and prosper!
Venice
Can you also see about URL’s for the books like LuLu does would really make this a super idea and also bring all your bubblers to you for their books!
And the world wide market too!
Gayle Faucette...
This is all really exciting news! Thank you!
Judylee
I gotta say that I LOVE the new set up. Great job you guys, truly great work!!!
florene welebny
great and exciting ideas !
thanks everyone for making all this possible.
Debrene
PurePhotography
Sounds great, keep up the good work m8s
nesi
Thank you guys!!! You are the best!
angelfeather
very cool idea. this place is the best!
Sonja Wells
I love this, great work guys! I’ve just spent the last however long voting :O Nice stuff coming out! I’m a happy camper. Best of luck with the book too, looks awesome!
Lloyd Harvey
wow, looking forward to the book thing becoming available.
Denzil
I LOVE the new challenge system – so easy, so engaging, makes you really WANT to enter, rather than “I probably should enter’.
Well done again :)
Deborah Milligan
fantastic. the books are a great idea.
Vladimir Garci...
thank you burbujaroja/red bubble welcome to the SFbay if you need a tour guide around the hot’s spot’s let me know mo6594621@aol.com.
danita clark
How very exciting !
The book looks fantastic great quality, great concept, sure to be BIG!
Thanks rb.
Gina ...
the book is lovely and an excellent thing to offer – its very timely as i have been investigating books and how to print lately… nice one ! >>> Gina
hcroft
The book looks brilliant hope we can all do it.
natapee
i cannot wait for books. especially for us writers. wahoo.
roybarry
Books, what like proper books, with words and pictures? With my name on the front and my words and pictures on the inside?
Really?
This is going to be so cool!!!!!!!
John Luarca
The very thought of having ones own book available for purchase is an amazing idea! im excited on how this will evolve. keep on redbubble team! :)
Christine Wilson
Is it possible to do before xmas ??
David Symons
Dear Redbubble
In case your wondering if anyone is interested in redbubble books
In a quick count these words were mentioned
Great x 26
Love x 14
Fantastic x 10
Thanks x 8
Brilliant x 6
awesome x 6
Exciting x 5
Cool x 4
Hip hoo bloody ray x 1
May I add “Bonza “fanbloodytastic” and “I wish I had shares in Redbubble”
johna
I absolutely HATE the voting system. It’s all whiz-bang and stuff but wholly impractical. More than a few entries and it takes forever to go through them all and then to go back to the one you liked. (Assuming you can remember which ones you like after all that time and don’t give up before slogging your way back to them.)
A suggestion: Show 50-100 thumbnails at a time and allow us to flag our short list choices which then get shown together larger. From that view we select which gets our final vote.
Donna Ridgway
Books will be wonderful! Thank you.
Nancy Stafford
that great, i leave north of sf.. if they like i can give them a tour of marin county across the golden gate.. lol.. i would love to work for redbubble but i think i stick with the place i at.. which is in marin i been there a long time…
but i would love to meet the staff of redbubble some day..
Angela A.
Books?! Oh my goodness.. I know I am a bit slow on finding out about this.. but now that I know.. I can’t wait!! Thank you RB for all you do for us!!