Harry (Print/Publishing): November 2014

Formats

Publishing of childrens books can vary in different types for format such as…

Hardcover

Also referred to as hardback or hardbound.

There is a lot of detail on the hand drawn content that makes this book titled ‘The Scarecrows’ Wedding’ are presented with highly child friend themes and illustrations as well as the choice to text font and layouts that are relevant to the book’s story and themings.

eBook

Electronic books (variously referred as e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form and consists of text, images, or both, readable on computers, tablets or other forms of electronic devices. A lot of children’s books published as hardcover are also available as eBook copies.

For example, Judith Kerr’s ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea.’ may have originally be a hardcover book, but it was release as eBook copies for several eReaders and tablets. The themeings, story and portrayal of the tiger is child friendly and could easily appeal to children.

Whilst doing some research on what the best selling childrens books are (using Google to have a search), I ended up finding Amazon.co.uk’s Top 100 Best Selling books. However, most of the books were aimed at a relatively older age than the examples of the different formats.

Most of the books in the list are sold as Hardcover copies. Although there are some books in the list that are sold as Kindle Edition copies (eBook copies). There also some childrens books that can be found in Amazon.co.uk’s Top 100.

To give an example, in the top 6 is a list of books targeted at children and varying in genres/categories, fonts, illustrations, colours and layouts.