Are You Afraid To Try Because You Don’t Know How To illustrate Them?
The Children’s Books category on Kindle is one of the categories with the most potential. It is a huge and largely untapped market. It’s only natural that you’re tempted to try to create some of your own. After all, there’s money to be had and independence to be gained.
Your problem is that Children’s books tend to use a lot of illustrations. And you don’t know how to illustrate them without spending several hundred dollars on artists or stockphotos.
What if there was a way to write and publish children’s books without spending a single dime on illustrations? What if you could get those illustrations at stock photo sites or public domain sites?
Would that make it easier for you?
For years I've been aware that children's books were a lucrative market on Kindle. I've even published one that didn't do that well (one book is never going to cut it anywhere). In fact, I don't think I've ever spent as much time on one book as on this one. And it has the fewest words of any book I've ever published.
I mean, getting illustrations for books can be done in 3 ways.
At least, that's the problem I've run into. It wouldn't be an issue if I just had to get a handful of images done per book, but when you browse through children's books on Amazon there seems to be almost 1 image per page. Even with stock images that's going to add up quickly.
To be honest, neither of those scenario's have been attractive to me. So I haven't created children's books.
Recently, however, I went through all the genres on Kindle to find ones with potential in terms of income and a host of Children's books subgenres turned up.
I didn't give it much though at first. Actually, I actively ignored them. I knew it wasn't for me.
Then I went to parent-teacher conference at my son's school and I had a discussion with the teacher about books for my son (9 years old). The key to getting young kids to read more books is to find books that catches their interest. We (the teacher and I) asked him about his interests. He's not into soccer like the other kids, in fact, he's not into sports in general. He does like science, but he has already read all the fiction books on that topic for his age-group that are available in the school library. The conversation went on for a bit and in the end we were at a loss. We decided that both the teacher and us parents would look into possible books for him to read.
So far we're still at a loss.
Then it dawned on me. There was a market there. And who better to write books for my son than me? I mean, I have first-row tickets to figuring out what his interests are, right?
I went through a bunch of the books he'd read, and then I found similar books on Amazon.
A smile formed across my face.
Most of these books were less 100 pages in length and only contained a fraction of the illustrations books for younger children did. Best of all, I knew how to get images for that FREE!
"Mike," I said to myself, "You've just hit the jackpot!"
Right, there must be other ways to get into the childrens books market, right?
Sure there are.
As mentioned above the cheapest way in terms of images is to illustrate the books yourself. That won't cost you any money, but it will take a lot of time. And there's the tiny detail that you actually have to be able to do the illustrations...a minor detail...surely...
This is a solution that does work. It requires you to be able to find illustrations that suits your story, but it's doable. However, stock illustrations aren't free. You often have to pay $50 for one images just to get the license you need. If you're doing a book which requires 1 illustration per page (not uncommon in early learning or bedtime story type books) and your book is 30 pages long that's $1500 in stock photos alone. If you're selling the book at $0.99 on Amazon with 35% royalty that means you have to sell 4.500 copies before you break even.
Yeah. If option 2 was expensive I don't have to go in detail as to how expensive option 3 is going to be. It's not uncommon to have to pay $100 for a good illustration, however. You do the math.
Ok, so what can you do about that? Well, the simple answer is, use fewer images and use FREE images whenever you can. There are Kindle book genres where you can get away with a fraction of the illustrations you need in other genres. You need to find those genres and hit them like a swarm of locusts on a ripe cornfield.
In "Book-A-Day Children's Nonfiction" I will show you exactly which Childrens books genres work well with fewer or free images, which types of books you can create for those genres, and how to create them.
Children's books are extremely lucrative. It's also a market few Kindle publishers venture into. The reason is simple. Illustrations are expensive. If you buy "Book-A-Day Children's Nonfiction" you will learn how to minimize that expense and carve out your slice of an extremely lucrative market.
I've gone to great lengths to ensure this training contains all the information you need to start publishing your own children's books on Kindle while keeping the expenses as low as possible. If, after 30 days, you don't agree that this training gives you everything you need to start your own Kindle publishing business with children's books you can get your money back at any time.
P.S.: Sick of paying through the nose for images? Are you also unable and unwilling to float $1.500 or more on images for months before you break even...if you manage to do that?
P.P.S.: "Book-A-Day Children's Nonfiction" will help you eliminate image cost for your children's books entirely!
P.P.P.S: It won't take you long before you can crank out a book every day if you buy "Book-A-Day Children's Nonfiction" and apply the methods inside the training.