Publishing children’s books poses several issues that can take on potentially added significance compared to when those same issues are presented within the scope of non-children’s book publishing. These issues are always important but what makes publishing children’s books so potentially valuable is that these books lend themselves to merchandising, cartoons, multimedia and trademark potentialities perhaps more so than do non-children’s books. This can make the illustrations more important than the text. Thus, these issues, as all other issues, must be addressed in a thorough, written agreement since no one can know, in advance, which book will become the next hugely successful series of books or have characters that make millions of dollars from such merchandising deals such as pillow cases, motion pictures, cartoon series and so on. READ MORE –>>