Do you have a lot of children to buy for at Christmas time and throughout the year for birthdays? Is it difficult to come up with so many gifts on a budgeted income? Are gift ideas as difficult to come by as the money for them? Perhaps you should consider a book series.

If you start on a book series you will know exactly what present to buy next. It will take the guess work out of your purchases, both in gift choice and in the money you will spend. You will know exactly what and where to buy. Also, the children you buy for will be excited about knowing their collection is growing. They will anticipate the next book of the series and be thrilled to receive it.

There are many series of cheap children’s books available both online and in the bookstores. There are also many of them available electronically if the kids in your life have e-readers.

So make it easy on yourself and exciting for your kids. Buy books.

I once knew this guy who owned several self publishing companies. He said it was the best business that he ever owned. That made some sense, because self publishing requires very little overhead, and you can charge quite a bit for the books that you are printing. Of course, that was several years ago, when the price of paper was much cheaper. He said sometimes his profit margin was as high as seventeen percent, and that many times it was higher than that. One of the things that was most helpful was that plenty of people wanted to publish their own books, and would pay a pretty penny for it. But once people had the option of writing blogs and things, then they weren’t as keen to fork over a bunch of money to pay somebody to publish something. Also, ebooks are becoming more and more popular these days, so even less people are interested in self publishing. I guess he got out of the business at the right time. I think he got into advertising, or something like that. He always seemed to know how to make money.