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In recent years, with the development of children's book, more and more author Engaged in writing and self-publish such kind of books. Why more and more people choose to self-publish their children's book? According to Hannah Holt's investigation. Authors chose self-publishing for a variety of reasons, most of them personal. In fact, only about 5% of self-published authors indicated "making money" was their primary goal.So,how to get a book published? Follow this article, I guess you will find the answer.
According to my years of provide the printing book service for self-publishers. I've rounded up the following 10 tips for self-publishing children's books.
1. Understand the risks involved.
While some forms of publishing are cheaper. But self-publishing a children's book is not cheap. Because the reader is children, it is necessary to actually publish paper books. Most children do not rely on e-readers to read every day. Also, the children's book market is very competitive. and even successful books have little profit. So when you decide to self-publish your children's book, you must consider carefully.
2. Consideration of cost.
(1) Printing costs. Children's book printingis different fromother ordinary book printing. The requirement of printing children's book is very high. Black and white, less pages, smaller size, more quantity is cheaper. Coloring book printing is expensive. The process is more complicated and the price is more expensive. Bigger in size, more pages, the price is expensive. Branded and thicker papers are usually more expensive. If you print color books it means pay more cost than regular and black and white books.
(2) Shipping costs. If the quantity is large, it is generally cheaper to choose sea or rail transportation.
(3) Promotion cost. For the self-publishers, the cost of promotion is also a huge expense. If don't have enough money, you can consider to offline sales. Such as select to cooperate with school, bookshop, maternity and baby shop, ect.
(4) Other cost.
3. Prepare the money. After estimated cost of self-publish your children's book, you need to prepare money. If you only print 10-20 copies to your friends of family, it only need little money. But if you consider to sale, it will need large money. Thus, before you decide to self-publish your children's book,you must prepare the money at first.
4. How to choose a right children's book printer. Traditional small self-publishing is often the best option for publishing children's books. Because having a print book is key to promotion. The so-called professional people do professional things. Choosing a right printer to print your books will achieve twice the result with half the effort. For example, carton printing factory, its specialty is various packaging customization. If you ask them to customize your children's books. Not only the printing cycle is long, but the printing quality is often not up to your expectations. So find a professional printer to print your book is very important. Chinaprinting4u has more than 20 years of experience in the book printing industry. As one of the earliest manufacturers to enter the field of children's books. Who have successfully customized various children's books for thousands of self-published authors. And got many good reviews from customers.
5. The choice of paper. Ordinary paper will affect children's eyesight due to excessive brightness. Try to choose some green paper or eye protection paper. So that children will not be tired from reading books, and can also generate interest in learning. What paper is best for printing children books? I shared in a previous article.
6. The printing ink must use with green ink. Because the children often touch and bite the book. If use the ordinary ink, heavy metals in ink may be inhaled from the mouth, it will endanger the health of the child. So print children's book must choose green ink. And use green ink to print the books will have a light fragrance. Children are more likely to have a strong interest in books. Due to Soybean ink has many advantages. Such as, scratch resistance, no irritating odor, light and heat resistance, easier to recycle, wide color, etc.
Thus, soybean ink as one of green ink, which often use for children's book printing.
7.Print and promote. After you've paid the publisher and they've sent you some books, it's time to start. Start with a local private store. Show the owner your book, ask if they can sell it on his/her shelf, and you give them a commission in return. Also ask the big bookstores, but don't expect to always get a positive response. Offer a reading service at the store that sells your book. This is a great way to solicit business for you and the owner. So most owners who agree to sell your book should also agree to the reading service.
8. When you have negotiated with the bookstore, go talk to the person in charge of the library. Donate one of your books at each branch and ask the librarian if there is a way for you to hold a reading party at your local branch.
9. Schools is a good choice. Elementary school is a great way to get your book in contact with local children. But you won't be able to simply plug in and read your book in class. Ask the library officer to donate a book of yours, then discuss the possibility of a reading party with the school administrator. If they don't agree, don't force it.
10. online sales. Make sure to start by building at least a small website or microblogging page to promote your book. Those interested should be able to simply order from it. It also provides a great way for parents to get to know you and your book before buying.
After reading above 10 tips for self-publish a children's book. May be you had been knowinghow to self-publish or even understand self-publish a children's book is not easier. No matter what kind of children's book you want to self-publish, you must consider carefully before take any action. Also, If you want to share any idea of self-publish or custom children's book printing,welcome to leave a comment. Or you want to know more about such knowledge, pleasefollow chinaprinting4u.
In recent years, as parents pay more and more attention to children's education. Children's board book printing are very popular in the book printing industry. Publishers want to customize the version of the board book no matter what type of book. Which leading to the proliferation of board books.
Judith Schilders of Boston University in the United States. He proposed four stages of early childhood literacy behaviors. The four stages are book-holding behavior, picture-reading behavior, comprehension behavior, and pragmatic behavior.
The stage of holding a book is often aimed at children aged 0 to 3 years. And these behaviors include turning pages and biting the book cover.
Why custom board book for this age of children? Because compare to other types of children's book, board book more cost-effective. Children reading such books can tear, bite, and drop, but they are not easy to damage.
How to custom a good children’s board book?
1. The content design is must based on pictures.
A single object per page, and no more than 10 words per page. Because the attention time of young children is very short, children in this period often read pictures. Thus, the content design of the custom children's board book is not suitable for too many words.
2. Pay attention to the color design of the cover and content.
The cover design visually caters to children's psychological colors. From the perspective of color psychology, children prefer bright colors and graphics that describe the scene well. Children will have a more pronounced preference if they are portrayed as good characters and if things have good meanings. Thus, on the cover or content, the color quality of the printing must be good. And there should be no blurring of colors. Which will not only not attract the attention of children, but also affect the psychological needs of children.
3. Paper selection for custom board books. Most of board book printing often choose coated paper. Due to coated paper has high smoothness, strong water resistance. And strong reproduction of images. And Children's board books are printed with a large number of beautiful pictures. Which is easier to attract children to read. So printing children's board books on this type of paper is prefer to read. Besides, the thickness of paper, thicker is not the better.
4. Printing process: custom board books for babies is often use offset printing. Because the lithographic offset printing process is more mature. The printing quality is much better, the picture is more restored and the cost of offset printing is cheap.
5. It is necessary to pay attention to the rounded corners of the four sides of the book. As much as possible to maintain the smoothness of the book. And children will not scratch their hands because the paper is too hard.
6. Custom board books for babies must use green and fresh ink. The young children like to chew on books. If use ordinary inferior ink, the toxic gas will enter the respiratory system through the child's mouth. It will be damaging the child's health. Moreover, it causes damage to the environment, which is neither green nor easy to fade. Thus, at present, most of the children's board books printing often use soybean ink. This ink is safe, non-toxic, tasteless, rich in color, green and renewable. The most important thing is that it will not cause any harm to the body when used to print children's board books. So, some of the mineral oil is replaced by soybean oil in soybean oil-based ink.
7. Use water-based adhesives to custom children's board books. Compared with traditional EVA hot melt adhesives. Water-based adhesives have many varieties. It is very cheaper, green, and is more conducive to improving production efficiency.
Chinaprinting4u provides all types of board book printing service for self-publishers and companies. Due to high quality and reasonable, many clients have been cooperated with us many times.
Custom posters are a way for businesses to promote their company. They print most of the posters in single-sided monochrome or single-sided four-color printing. Fabric poster printing and paper poster printing are very common in promotional activity. Because of the wide range of publicity, high intensity and low cost. Printing posters are one of the most effective publicity methods at present. Such poster can achieve promotional effect also can’t lack good design.
Good design poster not only can effectively promote company image. But also can better show the company's products and services to the consumer. Only good design of poster can explain the function, purpose and advantages of the product detail. Interpret the cultural concept of the enterprise and bring good sales to the enterprise.
Why more and more company choose custom poster to promote their company?
Because printing posters only need low cost but can achieve the effect of wide dissemination. It plays a very important role in the sales of company. So target poster printing is very popular in recent years.
The most important reason why posters are so popular is the design of posters. Poster design is the main thing, while poster printing is secondary. Only good-looking and creative posters can print influential posters to attract consumers. But, you must have these three points of awareness when designing posters. So that you can design and produce a satisfactory poster. Let's take a look at it in detail!
1. The poster design must conform to the aesthetic standards of the consumers.
With the improvement of people's living standards, everyone has their own aesthetic standards. The main purpose of poster printing design is for consumers. Thus, after we design the poster , it must be accepted by the consumers. If consumers are not interested in it, it is hard to pay attention to the content of the poster printing.
2. Poster printing design should have good creativity
Posters are often promoted with pictures. You must be creative in the design of pictures and posters. The most important thing is to give everyone a refreshing feeling. Creative poster design can improve the grade of posters. Only printing such posters. It can attract everyone's attention and make it easy for people to accept the content of the poster.
3. Poster printing design should pay attention to the application of color
No matter print what type of poster, you must make good use of color when designing. Express the theme of the poster printing through the appropriate color. So that can attract everyone's attention.
Through the above three points, we can clear to know the importance of poster design. Only good design can best custom poster printing. And only optimal print poster can have a good publicity effect. Then bring sales profits to the company.
