Big news….
It took a few months longer than I anticipated, but I’m very pleased to announce the launch of a new hiking guidebook for hiking enthusiasts around Vancouver: The Great Hikes of Vancouver!
The eBook includes a hand-picked selection of the top ten must-do hikes for your next outing. It was a huge undertaking to put this book together, even though I had a lot of the hiking information on the website already. I went through each hike and greatly expanded and improved upon all the descriptions, vetted the stats, and added a lot other hiking information and resources into the book. I had no idea how much work it would be to put this together, but the process was a lot of fun.
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. And 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.
How to get the eBook
The book is listed on Amazon $2.99. If you are interested in the book, please grab a copy and let me know what you think! Reviews on the Amazon store are greatly appreciated, as they will help others discover the book too. I also welcome feedback on what could be added to to the book, if anything. Just contact me and let me know what you think.
You can easily download the book onto your PC, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Kindle First, whatever via the free Kindle App. It will sync all your books across all your devices through your Kindle account. If Kindle books aren’t your thing, new versions (Kobo, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, etc) of the eBook will be out within 2-3 weeks! You can also get the ePub file directly from Smashwords.
Be sure to check out the Best Vancouver Hikes Series webpage – there is more info, and I’ll be maintaining a hiking blog there as well with some posts from time to time.
Last but not least, thank you to all the friends and family who helped me in the creation of the book, and to everyone for reading!
