October 27, 2016

  As I began researching the economics of getting a children’s book published and distributed, I was surprised at the different elements involved. Most of us don’t know what goes behind it, so thought it might be interesting to know – Illustrations – Unless you are a highly skilled artist yourself, which many of us do not have the good fortune to be 🙂 – Illustrations can be the most expensive (and important) component. Highly professional illustrators will probably do a 25-page children’s book for $5K. That is the low end, believe me. There are… Read More »Why Kickstarter part 2

– Traditional publishers receive, by one estimate I read, more than 20,000 manuscripts of which 30 are chosen that is ~ 0.1% – Multicultural content in children’s books at maybe 10% (this is a researched statistic). South Asian will be far lower – So by inference, chances of a South Asian themed book being picked by a big publisher? less than 0.01% and depending on so many other factors This is my own inferred calculation, not perfect, but it gives an idea of how difficult it is to break into the children’s books market. My… Read More »Why Kickstarter part 1