I'm looking to self publish a full color trade paperback collection of my artwork. I'm wondering what sort of size/price combo would YOU be most likely to purchase if you saw it online or at a con? (I don't want to make it too short... nor too expensive!)
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576 deviants said150 Pages: $25 (5" x 7.5" Color Trade Paperback)
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463 deviants said200 Pages: $30 (5" x 7.5" Color Trade Paperback)
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360 deviants said100 Pages: $20 (5" x 7.5" Color Trade Paperback)
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243 deviants saidI am not interested in an art book at this time.
Sweetie, the more the merrier. You're offering an art book for less than $40. I'm all for it! Then again... I'm the kind of person that spends $50 to laminate a full sized Royo poster. So I may not be your typical broke supporter.
Just ordered the Evolution book! Can't wait to get it in the mail!
Those all look like pretty fair prices to me. But alas, I can afford none DX If I could, though, it'd probably be the $20 one. because well... that's all I can afford...
Ideally, I'd go with the 200-page, $30 dollar option, because that would (hypothetically) produce the greatest value. 150-page, $25 dollar, though, would more likely fit my budget. plus, I'm a bookaholic, and as much as I'd carry this new book around, my bookshelves can't handle much more volume.
I'm curious: why the extremes of a small paperback and a larger hardback? Why not an 8.5x11 paperback? Cheaper is better, but so is bigger. I know I enjoy opening up your how-to books just to see the art in person rather than in JPEG form.
It's also kinda fun to be reading the book and think, Hey, I remember seeing this on the Web site! On the other hand, there's something to be said for including stuff that's not online because it gives people incentive to buy the book and not just stick with the site (hence why you haven't put up many in-depth tutorials that would overlap what's in the books--as the back cover says, "kindly buy it first--the author has debts to pay").
I'm also interested in whether there will be any kind of text descriptions accompanying the artwork. One of my favorite parts of viewing your gallery is reading the comments to learn about your thought process or some background information about the piece. I at least hope to see titles and approximate dates. On the other hand, that would require either that the art be smaller or that the number of pages be doubled so that comments can be put on facing pages.
Finally: Please don't call it a coffee table book. I shudder to think of people spilling coffee or propping up their feet on your artwork.
You have just made me very happy. I'm a little iffy--a little--about $60 (hardcover) for 200 pages, but I think I could scrape some money out of the couch. It would be worth it.
Now that I do the math, I think I understand the smaller size. Assume 1 print for every 2 pages. (For simplicity's sake, let's pretend that any artworks without description pages and any pages consumed by contents, introductions, and so forth will cancel each other out perfectly to give us half as many prints as pages.)
The smallest/cheapest option, the 100-page paperback for $20, gives us a price of 40 cents a print.
The largest/most expensive option, the 200-page hardcover for $60 (you did say double for hardcover, right?) gives us a price of 60 cents a print.
No matter what option you choose, we still get a boatload of super-cheap prints. You normally charge a dollar for a sticker, and here you're selling a print for just over half that price--with bonus material!
Think of it this way: Anyone who wants to spend less on a print than what they'd spend on a gumball or two can take whatever size and page count they get and be happy with it.
(I do however have two regrets. One: I went and voted for 150 pages before figuring all this out--I'd rather have the 200-pager. Two: This reflects the apex of my math skills. )
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Then again... I'm the kind of person that spends $50 to laminate a full sized Royo poster. So I may not be your typical broke supporter.
Just ordered the Evolution book! Can't wait to get it in the mail!
But alas, I can afford none DX
If I could, though, it'd probably be the $20 one. because well... that's all I can afford...
It's also kinda fun to be reading the book and think, Hey, I remember seeing this on the Web site! On the other hand, there's something to be said for including stuff that's not online because it gives people incentive to buy the book and not just stick with the site (hence why you haven't put up many in-depth tutorials that would overlap what's in the books--as the back cover says, "kindly buy it first--the author has debts to pay").
I'm also interested in whether there will be any kind of text descriptions accompanying the artwork. One of my favorite parts of viewing your gallery is reading the comments to learn about your thought process or some background information about the piece. I at least hope to see titles and approximate dates. On the other hand, that would require either that the art be smaller or that the number of pages be doubled so that comments can be put on facing pages.
Finally: Please don't call it a coffee table book. I shudder to think of people spilling coffee or propping up their feet on your artwork.
Yeah, there will be text, detail shots, and sketches and process images on the opposing page of most of the prints.
Now that I do the math, I think I understand the smaller size. Assume 1 print for every 2 pages. (For simplicity's sake, let's pretend that any artworks without description pages and any pages consumed by contents, introductions, and so forth will cancel each other out perfectly to give us half as many prints as pages.)
The smallest/cheapest option, the 100-page paperback for $20, gives us a price of 40 cents a print.
The largest/most expensive option, the 200-page hardcover for $60 (you did say double for hardcover, right?) gives us a price of 60 cents a print.
No matter what option you choose, we still get a boatload of super-cheap prints. You normally charge a dollar for a sticker, and here you're selling a print for just over half that price--with bonus material!
Think of it this way: Anyone who wants to spend less on a print than what they'd spend on a gumball or two can take whatever size and page count they get and be happy with it.
(I do however have two regrets. One: I went and voted for 150 pages before figuring all this out--I'd rather have the 200-pager. Two: This reflects the apex of my math skills.