Quote Originally Posted by Bunyip View Post
I'm not familar with Blurb, Lulu, nor SnapFish so don't consider this necessarily relevant to those sites; but I'd be reluctant to leave my artwork on a web site unless I was absolutely certain that it was here to stay. Imagine spending hours and hours putting together a wonderful scrapbook design, only to find that the web site has shut up shop and gone fishing, permanently. It's going to happen more too, given the current 'economic climate'.
With Blurb you download software, do all the work on your home PC and then upload the book for printing, so it is not held on the site of the company, nor is it prone to server issues(until you upload it).

Altavista print makes you do all your work online, so if there is an issue you can loose all of your work. (I find the ones that make you work online quite slow and frustrating). This is what makes the sites that ask you to download their design software much superior.