Featured Blog Post on the The Carnival of the Indies If you think about buying a book, where do you go to make your purchase? Probably it’s local bookstores or your favorite online bookstore. The market for the general public encompasses those bookstores and we call that the trade market. Indie authors promote widely through
Finding illustrators is a key task when you publish a children’s picture book. Picture book, by definition, include art. Let me say upfront, that this is the most expensive part of the process. But you must have great art or the book will fail. Do not think you can get by with clip art or
For the last decade, futurists have predicted that kids will readily adopt ebooks and the future of books and publishing lies in the digital landscape. To study ebook adoption by kids and school libraries, School Library Journal and Follett School Solutions recently released the Sixth Annual Survey of Ebook Usage in the U.S. School (K-12)
I recently visited with two booksellers. Mims House’s catalog now lists 18 books, and I wanted to present them with the variety of my titles. My business plan focuses on education markets, but I also target trade markets and would like to grow that part of my business. I also have new books scheduled for