Have you considered the fact that children’s books are often the top selling books in the book publishing industry? For thousands of years, children have loved hearing and reading stories. You’ve probably made up tales to tell your own children knowing you’d delight them.
Children’s books today can really capture the attention of the little ones. Delighting children is easier with all the glitter that is available along with holograms and pop-ups. Because of this, the children’s book publishing industry has soared.
Up until recently, it was the very large book publishers that dominated the publishing of children’s books Now though, it’s easier for almost anyone, with the technology available to them to self-publish their own children’s book. Although traditionally hard copies have been what’s been sold, electronic versions are becoming popular. You could design your own graphics with free programs like Gimp to go along with your text. Of course, if graphics isn’t your thing, you probably know a person who can help in this area.
There are some excellent graphic designers that might be able to help you that won’t charge what professional would. Students studying graphics and design at the local high school or college may be able to help you with your illustrations at a reduced cost.
Today, there are a few electronic formats you can produce your book in. The simplest is in a PDF format, that you could sell from your own website. You could take payment using PayPal, and this is a fairly easy thing to set up, unlike years ago.
Quite a number of authors have chosen the option of using Amazon Kindle for their preferred choice of delivery. Many authors are now writing and formatting their books for Kindle and are able to use the Power of Amazon.With the power of Amazon, you have the potential of reaching hundreds of thousands of people that may be interetested in your book.
You could advertise your new book on a relatively cheap budget. A website is a necessity and you can have one without spending an arm and a leg these days. Less than nine dollars a month is what it will cost for hosting.WordPress is free and many hosts offer it as part of their hosting packages, which you could build your site on. Building your site with content after installing a nice theme on your WordPress installation is not very difficult to do.
The hardest thing to do with regard to your website will be building traffic to it. Consider offering some article writing services to other websites that have content related to children’s books. Instead of payment for those articles, these blogs and sites will usually include a link to the article author’s website.
EzineArticles.com is a great place to submit articles to along with submission to other article directories. When using the “resource box,” instead of describing yourself, use it as a call to action to click on a link you provide, which will take the reader to your website.
Need some ideas to come up with article topics? What about an article on how you write a book from the idea, through the writing stages to completion? If you published your own book, write an article about how you did it. If your book is on a particular subject, you could submit articles on that topic and ask the readers to visit your website for more information.
Slowly, the transition is being made from the traditional book publishing model to a different model where technology and resources for the individual are less expensive. You can also participate in this progression and with some labor, publish your own book!
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