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I have been approached by some adoptive parents with the suggestion of making
the Raising Colombian Kids Blog into a book, with the profits going to help fund
the charity Friends of Colombian Orphans. Before I spend the hours required to
make this a reality, I wanted to know the level of interest in purchasing the
book. I plan to use BLURB.com and the price will vary depending on how many
pages I decide to put in the book and the quality of book you'd be interested in
buying.
The costs of self publishing are kind of high -- though there is a 10% discount
if you purchase 10 copies or more. How much would people be willing to pay?
Which topics would you want in the book? Which things should I leave out? What
other things would you want included before publishing?
Here are the prices as quoted on Blurb
Pages Softcover, Hardcover, ImageWrap
20-40 US $19.95 US $29.95 US $31.95
41-80 US $24.95 US $35.95 US $37.95
81-120 US $29.95 US $41.95 US $44.95
121-160 US $36.95 US $49.95 US $52.95
161-200 US $43.95 US $56.95 US $60.95
201-240 US $50.95 US $64.95 US $69.95
241-280 US $57.95 US $71.95 US $76.95
I will add $10 to the price for the donation to Friends of Colombian Orphans and
you will need to pay for shipping. So far I have 6 buyers in Australia (thanks
Carina) but what kind of response would I get from people here in the US and
Canada.
Making the book will be very time intensive, even though the content is slurpped
up from the blog by Blurb, you have to order it and place the pictures -- which
is another story -- I'll need picture donations as I cannot freely use the
FLICKR pictures if I publish the book -- though I am working on getting
permissions. If you have pictures that you would be willing to give me the
rights to, or if you are an artist or illustrator and would like to donate a
drawing or two please contact me privately.
For more info on the organization for Colombian Orphans -- click here:
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I'd be willing to pay 20-30 dollars (20 for the book and 10 for the donation). It's a great blog, and would be a awesome book!
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