Eoin Purcell
Preempting self published books
This kind of event is rare so i do not think Publishers Weekly will mind me block quoting the article:
Sourcebooks Preempts Self-Pubbed Kids Book
by Lynn Andriani
Sourcebooks has just acquired a children’s hardcover title that has sold 179,000 copies since the authors self-published it in 2001. I Love You More, a rhyming picture book by Laura Duksta and Karen Keesler, will be on the fall 2007 list of Sourcebooks’ new children’s imprint, Jabberwocky, priced at $16.99.
Now when you look that over, it translates into 30,000 units a year. Why on earth was it not picked up before this? Still well done to the authors. A fine show!
April is a sunny month sometimes
Eoin
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