E-cookbooks match food and wine

by Darby
(Vinodiversity)

I've had a book/ebook about matching food with unusual wine varieties in preparation for many moons... it still is, I'm retired and I no longer have time to do so many things.

So I decided to publish a couple of chapters as ebooks to test the water.

The first, "10 dishes with Sangiovese," is published on my website. (An SBI site just like this one!) It is free as an incentive to get people to sign up to my newsletter. It has been moderately successful, but not a tearaway success.

The second book, "Bacchus and the Bird," is published on Guidegecko. Again it is free. Used as a promotion for my site, but I will eventually expand it and start selling it rather than giving it away.

Guidegecko is a relatively new platform but they have 3 things which I like.

1. They allow you to upload your book for free. They give you a MS word template to use if you like but you can use your own method of writing and producing a PDF.

2. They have an affiliate program, so you can promote other ebooks as well as your own work.

3. You can use GG as a platform for Print on demand to sell your books in hard copy, again free to set up but you pay the printing cost of course.

4. (I know I said 3 but I'm overdelivering!) You can use GG's affiliate program to recruit other webmasters/bloggers to promote your book.

So GG is a useful service to anyone who has travel related content. It can be used by beginners to test the water or it can be a major outlet for your work.

Thus far I have had a few downloads of the free book. I have a few embedded affiliate links in the book that may eventually pay of. I am not yet ready to do any serious promotion of the book but when I expand the content and price it I can then start to recruit some affiliates to help me sell it.

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