Young Entrepreneurs Part #3 - Children's E-Books

Okay, for the past two days I've been talking about Young Entrepreneurs.  Yesterday, I blogged about the exciting world of  "app development" and the importance of finding mentors for your children.

As many of you, may well know, app development requires a certain level of technological expertise, that not everyone possesses.  So, what do you do if your child has the imagination to create an app, the entrepreneurial drive to market it, but just doesn't have the skills to develop it own their own?  You find someone else - to help them.  You find them a mentor, and mentoring people through the digital book publishing process is the whole idea behind TaleSpring.

TaleSpring is an internet start-up company based in Utah.  Their business is to help people create and market children's e-books.  With TaleSpring, you can learn not just how to create a digital book for children, but how to create a children's book that is interactive and animated.

TaleSpring - Demo:

What's great about TaleSpring is that there is no pricey software to buy or download.  Instead, everything is web-based, so you create your e-book online.  Another plus, TaleSpring requires no knowledge of computer programming. You simply upload text and graphics, and then begin creating your e-book, one page at a time.

The mentoring from TaleSpring doesn't stop there. They are also there to help you publish your children's e-book for the iPhone/iPad and sell it directly to Apple's app store. TaleSpring's goal is to have your e-book submitted to Apple within 2 weeks of completion. Once Apple has received your book, you can usually look forward to it being published within about 2-6 weeks.

Okay, I know what you are thinking, this sounds good, but what's it going to cost?  You will be happy to learn that with TaleSpring there are no up-front costs at all.  It is totally free to sign up and totally free to create your e-book.  Once you are ready to publish, you will be charged $150 to have your e-book published and receive a 50% royalty on all app sales.

Since TaleSpring's motto is “Create Once. Publish Everywhere.”, a variety of publishing devices are supported which includes:  iPhone, iPod, and the iPad.  In the future, there are plans to support Android and Windows Phone 7.

So if your Young Entrepeneur, has a great idea for a children's e-book, you might want to have them give TaleSpring a try.  With a company like TaleSpring - you have everything to gain and nothing to lose.