Advice welcome - any one ?
Originally shared by WATERLINE: landscape with voices
Making progress, but....
As I've continued to work on the WATERLINE mock-up/book proposal, I have also been looking into self-publishing. Frankly, it is kind of discouraging. Many online self-publishers do not do landscape formats at all, and this book must be a landscape format. It simply will not work in a vertical format.
Blurb and Lulu both have a 13 x 11, which is perfect and that's how I'm laying it out. However......., big question: What will people pay for this book?
"Print on demand" is the most expensive way possible to buy a book. No economies of scale. No quantity discounts, or only small ones if you buy two books. Right now, the Blurb plug-in is telling me that the 35-page mock-up/proposal will cost $65@ to purchase to send to publishers.
Ok, so I'm going to do that. I'm probably going to buy at least 5 to send to publishers. But frankly, I don't have much faith in publishers. I sent out book proposals for this project 3 years ago and got nothing but rejections. Of course, those proposals weren't mock-ups, so maybe they didn't understand what they were rejecting.
But at this rate, the final book--which I envisioned to be about 150 pages--is going to cost almost $300 POD. No one will pay that. I'll have to scale it back significantly. And maybe that's the answer.
For me to purchase a few hundred copies to sell via the web, G+, FB and so forth would require thousands of dollars up front, which I don't have. But of course, scaling it back to many fewer pages would help that as well.
Bottom line: Any thoughts any of you dear friends have about: 1) book length, 2) publishers who might love it, 3) how much you/others would be willing to pay for it... I would so appreciate hearing from you!
And, BTW, I now have a pdf of the 35 pages. I might do screen captures of every spread and post them here so you can see the whole thing, but... that would be 17 posts and I sure don't want to spam folks.
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