Kickstarter

there are plenty of book pod sites you can make this on. i forget the names off hand, but it shouldn't be hard to find.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Lynette

Have you looked at Blurb? They even give you an ISBN

Lynette -- wishing you a great outcome for your fundraiser.

Lovely premise, dedication, beautiful artwork -- appears you have great support happening already with some backers.

Your promo video is very well done.

POD's are the best because its totally free. just choose the format it will be in, and the list it.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Thank you. And Mike and Isabella, I will definitely look into that. Thanks.

One of the sites is called Lulu - I made a calendar on it and my husband did a memoir of his mother's. Super super easy to use. Good Quality. Not one cent of cost until you are ready to print. Then when you start, you can actually print one copy at a quite reasonable price that you can go through and re-edit and make any changes you want. And, you can continue to update or make changes any time. POD for books is actually so superior to conventional publishing that it's amazing it hasn't taken over completely. Of course if you're doing 10s of thousands of copies it is a different story. Or idk maybe not even - haven't looked into it.

Lynette one thing you don't mention on the kickstarter unless I missed it is the breakdown of the costing you envision. I've noticed that sometimes people with crowdfunding projects show a detailed breakdown of the costs that the funding is going to support - that way it helps to substantiate the goal and build trust.

BTW I have looked into other similar sites and from what I've gleaned there may be even better ones than Lulu. But anyway it's been around for a number of years and definitely works.

On a side note, something I have often wondered is why FAA doesn't do calendars?? Would seem like a natural. Maybe because it puts the online composition in the hands of the user which would add a new function that FAA doesn't need with the current products...

good luck, Lynette!

"On a side note, something I have often wondered is why FAA doesn't do calendars??"

The feedback seems to be that not a lot of artist want calendars because they are a low dollar item that gives the buyer 12 of your images that can very well end up framed and on the wall.

I for one hope Sean is not looking at calendars or puzzles or any of the other low profit items. I hope he is working on some high profit margin items like tapestries or some other from of textiles.

I say that, but I have no doubt that if calendars or puzzles either one are added here, FAA will sell a ton of them and make money from them. Just like the round towels, power supplies or most of the consumer products. Not a lot of people are going to do a huge volume but the 400,000 members just selling one each per year is huge money to FAA. So we will probably see a lot more low profit margin items. And I will probably add them to the mix. Sigh....

I look at Lynette's kick start campaign the same as a Wall Street IPO looking for investors. If she can raise $5700 more power to her. I wish you nothing but luck Lynette!

Amazon's publishing site is great - createspace.com

Yes it's true people who bought a calendar at FAA might get more images - but what percentage of people would actually buy a calendar and then cut it up for the individual prints? I would see that person way more likely to find an old calendar and cut that up!

The calendars come out relatively expensive in POD especially compared to a paperback book. But if the per print price of the calendar images was too far off the individual print price I could see where that would be a problem. Benefit of a calendar for both the artist and FAA is the marketing value.

Tapestries sound like a great idea.

how many will spend $40 on a calendar when they can get them free from the supermarket? i can't say i know anyone that does it. but it can be done. just like framing a card here. but for the work it takes to make a calendar work - i get very few sales from it.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

"get them for free" ok Mike you often/usually make sense but that is not very convincing.

Surely people who spend $60,000 on a handbag have noticed that you can get ~fairly~ decent ones for under a $1,000. :) Not to mention for $5 or $2 at a second hand store.

Some of these site seem high cost for a coloring book. Lynette have you looked into your local community? Print a few to show as an example or even sell them to people you meet? Just a thought.

I looked into some of those pod sites, but don't I still have to buy stock to have on hand? I also looked into amazon, but the canadian site only does ebooks and something about the heritage act and not selling across the border from amazon.com.

I haven't looked at Amazon but there is definitely no problem re heritage act or anything with Lulu. We're in Canada and we don't have a problem. To get them for having on hand, we do that for my mother in law and just like on FAA you then get the cost price and discounts at certain quantities. The shipping is a bit pricey, not over the moon, but that's where it might be worth checking a couple of different sites.

I can't get past "$60,000 handbag".

Thank you Tatiana, I will look some more into that then.

I have been selling my calendars from $15-$20 online and in person for 5 years... That is the price most people expect and happy to pay for a good unique calendar. There is no way I see FAA being able to compete on that price point.

I can't get past "$60,000 handbag".

LOL! yes amazingly $60,000 (cdn) doesn't even make the first page on ebay!

http://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=handbags&_sop=3

That's crazy!

I'd buy that handbag if a NissanTitan Pro 4X was wrapped around it!

Wow....$60k for a handbag......not on Ebay's first page...just discussing price points.

I looked up art for $1,000,000 on Ebay.......try it. There are pages of original canvases all worth a cool one million dollars.

Everything on Ebay should be marked one million dollars. Including calendars.

Just poking some fun at Ebay, not anyone here.

I am for calendars and tapestries. In either order.

Dave

Lynette,

I just Googled, "coloring books print on demand". I came up with several results, but I did not vet them at all.

Good luck, your video is very nicely done.

Dave