Why An Author Would Chose to Crowd Fund Their Book/Series

First, they did not even answer the question posed.Second, how does it hardly cost anything? I will take a wild guess they didn’t even hire an editor (which is entirely their own prerogative), and where in the Hell did they find their cover artist? I may have stalked their website, which don’t even get me started on their branding. It’s their business and they can run it how they want. Third, the money is to cover the upfront costs I personally cannot afford even on a payment plan. Now lets talk about a breakdown of costs for my series and why I posed the question. The crowd funding campaign I’m thinking of launching is for the first 4 books in a series I’d like to launch consecutively for 4 months. My preferred artist and editors are all in the United States and I’m in Canada which means exchange will be abysmal. The following calculations are approximate and based on service rates from several months ago. Editing: $1,750 USD (doesn‘t include my proofreaders fee as I work in trade with her in running her website.) Cover Art eBook & Trade Paperback (not including graphics for marketing): $1000 Special Ltd. Edition Print Run limited to 50 copies of each title $1600 So far the total is sitting at $4350. I’m not even including the cost for advertising for this. This campaign is to help the production of this series and all the offerings/campaign perks would mean that my patrons/sponsors would be the first ever to receive these books before I go wide with this. Limited edition paperbacks would contain a ton of extra content that the regular print run on Amazon would never see. Now if I only ran a campaign for the first book, the cost would run at $1048 without an advertising budget. Which I still don’t have capital for and would rather not go into debt over this. My whole purpose was to show you that self publishing is a great opportunity to make money, but it takes investment. When you don’t have a dime to invest in it, a lack of funds is essentially a dream killer. Now you’re probably thinking why don’t I go with a small press publisher or a big one.