I had started a couple of threads here with some of my photos from our trip to the Sabi Sands in South Africa last June...
I rarely print, let alone publish, my images. But coming back with thousands of images, I started thinking about putting together a high-quality coffee-table style photo book with some of our images...
The problem is that producing a book like that quickly becomes cost-prohibitive. It would be beautiful, but realistically priced out of reach for most people, which means only a very limited audience would ever see it.
That’s when another idea came up. Instead of a pure photo book, what if we had our two boys research and write about all the animals and birds that we saw, and we combined their writing with our images? The print and paper quality wouldn’t be at the same level, but the result could be far more accessible, and hopefully more engaging, for a wider audience of wildlife enthusiasts.
So this became our family project; a book that blends photography with natural history, built around my photos (and a few of my wife's) and written by our boys.
If you’re curious, I’d love for you to take a look. And if you enjoy it, I’d certainly be grateful for a review...
Here is the Table of Content BTW, if anyone is interested...
And in case anyone is curious on the pricing and may not be familiar with Amazon KDP, Amazon calculates royalty at 60% of the selling price, and then subtracts the "Printing Cost". For example, for the Hard Cover version, the printing cost is $16.13 (given the premium paper and color version). So with every book sold, our boys will get only $6 (37*0.6-16.13). So I've told them that they can count on the money for a couple of ice creams 😅
