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Children books split at the file. A picture book is usually full bleed, color, and a page count in signatures of four, often 24 or 32 pages. A chapter book is closer to a novel: reflowable text, black and white, an age on the listing that is honest. We do not publish either from a Word document with pictures pasted in the middle.
The object
Print-on-demand color is expensive per copy. A picture book priced like a mass-market paperback will lose money on every sale. We run the cost for the page count and the trim before we promise a list price. Square and landscape trims are normal here. A 6 by 9 novel trim usually means the book was forced into the wrong template.
The ebook of a picture book is often fixed layout, so the picture stays with its words. A chapter book should reflow. The age range on the store is not a hope. Zero to twelve is a refusal to choose. We set the range from the vocabulary and the length, and we put it where a parent will see it.
Order of the work
What parents meet
They look at age, length, and whether the sample looks like a real book or a slideshow.
What we need
Art scraped from the internet is not a children book we will publish.
Decisions
Possible for a picture book if the price can carry it. We show the cost before you fall in love with a $9.99 cover.
The better path for a color book you will sell in quantity. A different quote, a paper proof, a place to store cartons.
Closer to novel publishing, with an age and a length a middle-grade or early reader actually is.
House rule
A file that cannot be printed is not a book yet, however charming the sketch is.
Before the template
It can be a fixed-layout ebook. Parents of picture books still expect print. We will say if ebook-only is a real plan or a way to avoid the print cost.
Often 24 or 32 for a picture book, in multiples the printer binds. We check the printer before we add pages to hit a number we like.
You do, if you own the text and the art. If an illustrator retains the pictures, the contract has to say what the edition may do. We do not upload art on a handshake.
Start with the age
The trim and the price follow from those two facts. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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