thinking of starting a line of products promoting cats and libraries or cats and books--like T shirts, mugs, bookmarks, etc....

What do people think of this ---do you think it would be profitable --would book-loving ailurophies or cat - loving bibliophiles or library cat people buy the dood dads---... Thanks for input

The Felinelady aka Felibrarian

I have:

The coffee mug and the book bag that say, "Books. Cats. Life is good."

A blanket and a wall tapestry of a cat snoozing on a bookshelf.

Several cat-themed bookmarks.

A few books about cats!

I'd say it could be profitable if you offer a quality product.

How did you market your product or reach an audience? How did people who love cats/books/libraries find you? Did you hire a graphi designer and web designer?My understanidng is that it is a major undertaking that could easily lose money. Thanks Felibrarian BTW A friend of mine bought me the book bag--books --cats--life is good.

I didn't sell, I bought (or had them given to me as gifts). So there is a market for the product.

Folks I know who sell stuff do it through Etsy or Cafe Press. Most of them are artsy-crafty types. Are you an artist?

Thanks---Have you made money--or have you profitted from your investment. I am not business--savvy and so am doing this in the dark. However, my idea was bascially nixed by a relative who has tons of experience marketing these type of objects and does not feel that it would be a profitable venture. I am not an artist. But I have an artist friend. Maybe I could experiment with a small quantity at first and do the cafe Press thing which I have heard about. I want o reach cat loving book people of course.

searching for a talk on cat books, i found this first, so --

Just OK'ed my proof of THE CAT WHO THOUGHT TOO MUCH. I am excited because I have seen the FEROCIOUS debates among reviewers of a cat book at Amazon (The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats by J M Masson) and cannot wait to see such energy pro and con direct ed to my first venture into felinity.

I, too, would love to make and market cat products -- ideal cat toys, for what i see in stores are poorly designed and too expensive. Re cats and books, i think that the suggestion by Huxley (Aldous) that all who would write start by adopting a pair of cats is right on.

BookLizard, while Puerto Rican crested lizards do seem tomcatish, only dueling gecko seem to me analogous to cats, not that you said a word about this. Seeing your name, i could not help adding it, as I added a couple pages on gecko to my cat book.