I did some pricing for them* and the cost isn’t too bad for custom-made ones. But I’m essentially doing softcovers here. Would people be interested in signed bookplates featuring one of these designs, do you think? Either as part of the Kickstarter, or as something I just sell to folks buying my books on Amazon? The answer can be no.
*Short version: international shipping has become horrible, both in expenses and reliability. It’d be cheaper for everybody internationally if they just bought the book in their own country’s Amazon and I sent them a signed book plate. But if I’m gonna buy one of those, well: there’s the savings in buying in bulk to consider…
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
Little Paulie Pessimist has always thought the signed bookplate to be the lazy author ( or cheap publishers(or boths!)) Solution to churnin’out signatures without having to bother actually touching them or paying to ship them back and forth to the author or God forbid asking the author to fly in to one of those Red States with dirty dirty factories and sign them on site.
The point of a signed copy is the (however brief) association with the author (I am holding something Moe held!). A bookplate merely says the edge of an authors hand slid across this while he signed it along with 19 other stickers in less than a minute.
I get that. But foreign shipping costs really are murder these days.
‘Tis a credit to yourself then, having gained enough overseas fans that foreign shipping costs are a concern. Kudos.