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
Filed under: Authors, Books, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Innovation, Self Publishing, Acquisitions, Agents, cool, POD to Mainstream, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing Companies, Self Publishing, Selling
We wondered this ourselves for a few years, but I kept saying-as soon as it happens we will know why it has taken so long. We are so thrilled with our publisher and editor…it seems as if we were waiting for them to exist! Jaberwocky was just launched and it feels like the perfect home for our book and for us to expand our careers as author and illustrator. I get the sense that an incredibly strong, and perhaps somewhat magical team has just been formed.
Shine On!
Laura Duksta
Author, I Love You More