Online purchase of Volume One

If you check The Gnomes of New Hope blog, my most recent post there will bring you up to date.

I will be building a page to purchase the published books. "Volume One, An Introduction to The Gnomes of New Hope" will be available shortly and I will be using this blog for sales.

Booksellers and individuals can both purchase books from here, once I set up the pricing schedule.

All the books are published by IMS Publishing, a division of Image of the Mind Studios. We will be selling quantities under 12 units for the MSRP of $20.

The wholesale pricing is available to booksellers, beginning at 12 units and going down in price as quantities go up until the price bottoms out, allowing for a full keystone at that point. The pricing schedule is not posted, but will be provided upon request.

Distribution is under discussion, so those terms may change. In any event, no product will be shipped from IMS until it is paid in full. The terms are at all times 50/50. No credit is extended, as those funds are required for other production activities.

If you want to lock in an agreement for direct sales of product, you should do so before a Distribution Agreement is in place, otherwise the wholesale cost will go up to accommodate distribution fees.

So those are a few notes regarding the release and distribution of the books, by way of direct sales from IMS Publishing. Other details will follow.

AG

e-Storybook

   Work on the final technical layout is continuing. I can't tell you how many revision have been required to finish refining this product. The numbering system is up to Rev 19-31.

   I will be moving forward to set up the operation of the e-book... again! The design elements which seemed to be finished, were found to have flaws, have now been corrected. So the file stucture and links need to now be rebuilt.

   Once this is completed, the Industry Review Package will be ready to distribute to investors and other business partners.

    The illustrations for the product are not complete and the volume of illustration panels required is currently 348 panels. That is a other of panels, which represent composites of many more pieces of artwork.

   With all this, the art department will be the focus of attention and that means that the animation department will be part of that attention.

   So, there's much to do and it all requires funding resources. If this is of interest to you, check out IMS Producing Partners.

AG

An update

It has not been very convenient to update my numerous blogs, but now with a recent link with an app on my phone it has become much easier to do
So I think I will try to keep these up to date.

IMS Publishing has advanced quite a bit since I started this blog. The books for The Gnomes are the primary publishing projects. Other project may follow, since I have at least 10 other projects that have built up over the years.

As you may discover, if you become a Vested Producing Partner, there are many projects which have reached a certain level and were put aside for lack of resources or the ability to advance. IMS Publishing is one aspect of Image of the Mind Studios the seems to have been waiting to happen. So things are moving forward in that regard.

I expect e will continue to grow, so long as I can gain the working capital to move forward and the right People to delegate responsibilities to. AG

Welcome

This is the beginning of IMS Publishing. Obviously nothing has happened here yet, but it will as I get closer to releasing The Gnomes of New Hope to the Public. I will also be setting up posts for each of the publishing projects which are sitting in the studio waiting to be done, and there are quite a few which got put on hold for various reasons.