Shutterfly and MyPublisher run on two completely different platforms.

Some initial notes and tips about the closure: Good news is you still have time to start up a new project, finish up current ones or reorder previous books through May 8th, but other deadlines as you can see below are considerably sooner. Here’s a shot of the last one I made for her with MyPublisher for my folks’ vacation Down Under…

My mom is a die-hard MyPublisher fan and she’s urging me to make her one last photo book of her recent vacation. MyPublisher was actually the first photo book company I tried about a decade ago and it’s still one of my favorites today. Some photo book features we’ve come to associate with MyPublisher have been brought over to Shutterfly, but not all. Shutterfly kept the company going pretty much business as usual these last few years, but I suppose at some point they made a business decision to discontinue MyPublisher as a separate “sister company” and close it altogether. The last event that worried some MyPublisher customers was Shutterfly’s buyout of MyPublisher about three years ago. It’s no surprise that this is big news in Photobookland – MyPublisher has been around for 23 years and they’ve built up a loyal following.

Just as soon as the email hit users’ inboxes, I was getting e-mails and Facebook messages expressing disappointment as well as a flurry of questions about what’s next? Messages have continued to come in steadily as the days have passed and I realized if I wrote a post, it would be easier to point folks to this instead of responding to each person individually. Earlier this week MyPublisher sent an email to its registered users announcing the company would be closing on May 8, 2017.

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