Patent ID: 7639386

Claim:
A system for generating printed works containing customized or personalized content, the system comprising: at least one data storage component including indications of content, wherein the indications of content are associated with items of content that comprise a collection of content, and wherein the items of content are available for incorporation into printed works containing customized or personalized content; and a printed work generation system including: a user interaction framework configured for providing aspects of a user interface, wherein the user interaction framework is configured for: providing access to the indications of content, receiving content selection instructions for selecting items of content from the collection of content, and receiving user instructions for transforming the selected items of content after aggregation; a content aggregation component configured for: retrieving the selected items of content by referencing the at least one data storage component based on the content selection instructions, aggregating the retrieved items of content into an electronic document, and transforming the selected items of content in accordance with the user instructions; and a print on demand component configured for generating a printed work containing custom content based on the electronic document.