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Cover Conundrums
Apr. 25th, 2009 07:02 amWell, aside from a final pass to correct for grammar, I've got Unexpected Diversions in an acceptable publishing format now. But the hard part still seems to be ahead of me.
I've e-mailed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaypeta and asked her if she could complete the cover she'd mocked up for me over a year ago, but I'm not not hopeful she'll be able to help. She's been AWOL from her own comic's webpage and forum for over two months now, caught up in real life, and asking her to do this is an imposition I know.
But the cover is a relatively minor point compared to the real difficulty. I want to publish in a professional manner, so it's availible on Amazon and other places. I want, in other words, for it to be published for real. But for that I need it to be A) registered at the US Copyright Office, and B) have an ISBN number.
The copyright would be painful enough. I'd have to send two copies of the book to them (which would cost) and pay an approximately $45 fee. Not fun but doable.
On top of the ISBN though, it's really going to cost, because to get that I'd either have to purchase an individual ISBN from the goverment, which would be $125, or use the marginally cheaper "Published by YOU" option offered by Lulu, which could "only" be $100.
Given an estimated $5.00 profit generated on each book, which will cost $26.50 total for individual purchase once you add in Lulu's publishing cost and profit cut, I'd have to sell something like forty books just to break even. Mind you this is for a self-published trade paperback, 220 pages and a hair less than 75k words long.
Oi. I think I need that winning lottery ticket more than ever...
I've e-mailed
chaypeta and asked her if she could complete the cover she'd mocked up for me over a year ago, but I'm not not hopeful she'll be able to help. She's been AWOL from her own comic's webpage and forum for over two months now, caught up in real life, and asking her to do this is an imposition I know.But the cover is a relatively minor point compared to the real difficulty. I want to publish in a professional manner, so it's availible on Amazon and other places. I want, in other words, for it to be published for real. But for that I need it to be A) registered at the US Copyright Office, and B) have an ISBN number.
The copyright would be painful enough. I'd have to send two copies of the book to them (which would cost) and pay an approximately $45 fee. Not fun but doable.
On top of the ISBN though, it's really going to cost, because to get that I'd either have to purchase an individual ISBN from the goverment, which would be $125, or use the marginally cheaper "Published by YOU" option offered by Lulu, which could "only" be $100.
Given an estimated $5.00 profit generated on each book, which will cost $26.50 total for individual purchase once you add in Lulu's publishing cost and profit cut, I'd have to sell something like forty books just to break even. Mind you this is for a self-published trade paperback, 220 pages and a hair less than 75k words long.
Oi. I think I need that winning lottery ticket more than ever...
