Revision 300

So the final Storybook layout is out to press for the prototype run. As I said elsewhere, I priced Volume One at $29.95, Volume Two at $39.95, and Volume Three at $49.95. I have my doubts as to whether or not we can actually achieve those prices, but the books are well worth that price. Volume One is Book One and that price works, but Volumes Two and Three each contain three books and Volume Three is larger than Volume Two.  It may be that I will have to publish the Books separately in order to keep the price down. However, the largest expense is binding and handling, so the Volume, in the long run, ends up cheaper. It's just that the MSRP is higher. Well, we'll see after the prototypes are finished and they go out for printing quotes.

I hope I can locate distribution, but I'm not going to inventory product and I'm not paying for any inventory. So I need a vested partner for inventory. It could be a distributor, or simply an investor. But anyway you look at it the equity is in the inventoried product, less my cut. My cut comes right off the top, before any sales, meaning it's incorporated into the wholesale price. I wholesale inventory, to a distributor or an investor. So, that's my deal.

On another front; now that The Illustrated Storybook is semi-finished (being short on illustrations, but completely written and laid out for publication), I am moving to publish the Libretto. 

The Libretto has be finished for ten years, but the Score to the music is not finished. That fact has put the Libretto in limbo. But with the publication of the Illustrated Storybook that is based on the Libretto, the story and character elements have derived copyright protection. That makes it possible for the Libretto to be reviewed by Industry Professionals, most particularly, theatrical producers who engage in Union productions. I can handle non-union product, buy I don't want to produce the Union product, simply because of the regulations involved. So I will be jobbing that out, either through employing or partnering with a union producer with Image of the Mind Studios, or by Licensing the show out to another Producing Organization.

I'll discuss this further, elsewhere.

AG