Here’s the new book trailer for the Great Hikes of Vancouver eBook. The video was created by Jeff Pelletier.
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Great Hikes of Vancouver now Available on Scribd
Good news Scribd subscribers. The Great Hikes of Vancouver guidebook is now available on Scribd.
If you’re not familiar with Scribd, just think of it as the Netflix for books. You pay a monthly subscription – currently $8.99 per month – and you get access to their entire library of eBooks. You can read whatever you want to your heart’s content. They have iOS and Android apps so you can read on the go and sync to your preferred device.
If you’re on Scribd, be sure to grab the book. If you’re new to Scribd, check out their website and see if its something you’re interested in joining.
In fact, at the moment they are offering a free three month subscription.
Great Hikes of Vancouver now Available on Google Play
Alright Google Books fans – the eBook is now available on the Google Play store for download. You can view a preview and purchase the book directly from the store.
You can read the eBook from the Play store via the Google Books iOS and Android Apps, or through your browser on your computer.
Happy reading!
The Great Hikes of Vancouver now Available on Smashwords
Launch Result (so far)
After the book was published on July 13, I did an official book launch on July 21. The initial response has been amazing!
The eBook was announced on Outdoor Vancouver, its newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, a Press Release, etc, and the book shot up all the way to #147 of the top paid Kindle Books on Amazon.ca! (It has since fallen, but as of this writing its still doing well). Not bad considering it was only 47 spots behind Dan Brown’s Inferno!
Thanks to all my friends and family, and everyone who grabbed a copy. I hope I can sustain the sales for the next month or so before the summer weather begins to taper off, but even the sales-to-date have exceeded my expectation for it only being on the market for one week.
Now Available on Smashwords
Other good news.
Smashwords is a popular distributor of eBooks, and Best Hikes near Vancouver is now available the Smashwords website for sampling/ purchase. The book can be purchased directly from Smashwords in a variety of formats from ePub, Mobi, PDF, etc – so you should have no problem download the book on any device (contact me if you do). With Smashwords you can download the file in all the different formats and only need to make the purchase once, which is nice if you like to read on different formats on different devices.
It will be a few weeks yet before you can find the book directly on Apple iBookstore, Kobo, Sony, etc, but those formats are coming soon!
The Great Hikes of Vancouver Launch
It took a few months longer than anticipated, but I’m very pleased to finally announce the launch of a new hiking guidebook for hiking enthusiasts around Vancouver: The Best Hikes near Vancouver!
The eBook, initially available from Amazon, includes a hand-picked selection of the top ten must-do hikes for your next hiking adventure.
Why an eBook?
There are several ‘hiking in Vancouver’ guidebooks out there that have been on shelves of bookstores for decades now. They are great, and I’ve used them many times. However, eBooks offer several advantages over traditional paperback books. First, they are less costly to produce (and therefore can be sold at a much lower cost). They also allow for revised and updated versions to be easily published (and re-downloaded for free by those who have already purchased, through their online bookstore). The eBook is a living document. and this is particularly useful for a hiking book as trail information can change year-to-year. It will also allow me to update the book as I receive feedback, and for you to get those updates at no extra cost, year over year.
Also, with an eBook, you always have the trailguide with you, loaded onto your portable device. No need to worry about having internet connectivity on your hike. No need to carry an extra book in your pack when you’re only using 2 pages for a particular hike.
The other thing I’ll be doing is starting a series – The Best Vancouver Hikes Series. The idea is to provide hikers with bundles or packages of hikes they can buy based on their interest/ skill level / location, etc. So, new eBooks in the series will be coming, (ie, Best Hikes on the North Shore, Top-Ten Waterfall Hikes, etc) over the months and years.
Also, I think these eBooks will help address tourists, who are only in town for a few days and don’t want to buy an expensive paperback book, that will only be used once or twice and then recycled or discarded. Instead, they can buy a eBook that suits their preference, load it onto their device, and not worry about wasting paper.
What’s next?
New versions (Kobo, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, etc) of the eBook will be out soon! Also, I’ve already begun writing and you can expect the second book in the series to be ready late 2013 or early 2014.
So, please check out the book and let me know what you think. If you want to stay alert to new book releases and other updates from the Best Vancouver Hike Series, subscribe to the newsletter.
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I hope you enjoy the book!