Professional Cookbooks

Cookbook Printing vs Publishing

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Taking recipes from a box to a cookbook that is ready to sell. Let’s take a look at printing a cookbook vs publishing. Knowing what this means can help you get a plan in place to make your cookbook a reality. Definition of Cookbook Printing Placing written content from an author or publisher into a publication form. Basically, book printing is simply taking someone’s writing or in our case recipes, putting them together and printing them in a book format. Some printers offer layout services where others may work with print ready files only. Definition of Cookbook Publishing The activity

Farmers’ Market and Cookbooks

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 Creating a cookbook to sell at Farmers’ Market is a great way to boost sales and spred the word about the products you have to offer! Profitable Combination – People attend farmers’ markets looking for the freshest and most nutritious ingredients to include in their meals. Creating a cookbook using the products you take to farmers’ market gives you the chance to showcase and introduce ideas of how to use your products. Easy Sell – Cookbooks make a great add on sale at farmers’ markets, as they are easy to store, display, transport and non-perishable. They also make a great

Plan for Cookbook Sales Success

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Plan for cookbook sales success starting today! If today’s the first day you thought about creating a cookbook start today. If you have all your recipes collected then start today. Today is the best day to start planning for cookbook sales success. Plan to Make Sure Your Cookbooks Are Visible Check with local shops to see if they will sell a few copies. Sometimes offering a commission of even $1.00 a book will encourage them to not only sell the books for you, but also promote them. You can also check with local tourism offices as regional cookbooks make great

Create a Cookbook – Anatomy of a Cookbook

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Create a Cookbook – A Look at the Anatomy of a Cookbook.  All books have a beginning, middle and end. That’s what we learned in school but what about cookbooks? My English teachers somehow missed the chapter on how to write a cookbook. Let’s see if we can shed light on how to create a cookbook. Cookbook Specialists has a recommended “standard” cookbook layout that fits well for most cookbook projects. Front Cover Title Page Table of Contents Personal Pages Dividers & Recipes Value Added Sections Index Sales Page Back Cover Covers Covers are the window to the soul of

Preventing and Finding Typos When Typing Recipes

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Typos can easily hide in recipes. Spell check catches misspelled words, but sometimes our subconscious or auto-correct alters our attempt at typing ‘bake’ to ‘back’. Then there are those words that no matter how hard we try, we always type them wrong. Here are some tips to help find these errors and get them corrected before submitting your cookbook order. Read everything out loud. – When reading recipes out loud we are forced to really read the words that are there. It is easy to overlook mistakes when skimming through a recipe because our mind reads the word as it