Publish a book of his trips: how to do it?

Do you want to keep track of your trips? Here are our tips to publish a book on his trips!

When you leave for a holiday, in France or abroad, you can mix photos of monuments and their colors, unforgettable encounters and dream landscapes by thinking about immortalizing unpublished moments. As soon as we get back, we often copy these photos to his hard drive, we share them in close proximity, time passes and we never return to these clichés. To avoid having to look for the files in the computer or completely forget these clichés, here is an interesting alternative: to publish a book of his trips!

Whether it’s a photo album associated with a travel story, your impressions and anecdotes on a region, a population, a group of people, that we want to print a book travel blog or advise the general public on the best combinations to travel to a particular place, your travel book will touch a public if it’s well done, from creation to promotion. Here's how to do it.

Why publish a book of his trips?

First of all, why make a book about his trips? Isn’t that a narcissistic idea?

Well, no, we can find a lot of interest in getting into such a business. On the one hand, it serves to tell your impression and your stories lived during one or more trips. Selecting a set of photographs to gather them in the form of a photo album, and writing his emotions and impressions, is a unique testimony that no writer – so talented as he – will be able to write. For the good reason that each experience is unique to the person who lives it!

Posting a travel book or a book of his travels is an excellent way to tell your anecdotes: a badly lived galery (to advise the reader not to reproduce the same mistake), tips to avoid scams abroad, ideas of itinerary to do, combinations to better travel to cheap or to travel backpack, a guide to the best hotels and restaurants, etc... Anyone can choose his or her book and publish. But how to do and how to be published? So much so to say that it will certainly not be the traditional publishing houses (Gallimard, Albin Michel, Grasset, Actes Sud, etc.) that will decorate the first cover of your book. However, it is possible to engage in self-publishing, or to target alternative independent publishers, or to use online book printers such as print24 for example to publish a travel book in the form of photo album.

How to publish a travel note?

Your manuscript with the best travel photos is ready to be sent? Then begins a real marathon of publishing houses. But before that, it should be noted that the publishing world knows six modes of publishing a book:

• Editor’s account edition,
• The author’s account edition,
• The purchase order contract,
• The contract "at sales threshold"
• The "subscription" contract
• Auto edition.

We advise you to focus on self-publishing or publishing with publisher account, if you find a small alternative publishing house: the publisher Edilivre, for example. Following a trip to Morocco , after a safari in Kenya, back from a romantic trip Tuscany ? A birth, a marriage to be immortalized? To share beautiful photos and anecdotes among close friends, aim for the self-publishing: there is no editorial pressure, but it will be necessary to ensure yourself the cost of printing and promotion to publish a travel book.

You also need to know how to use the following editing and editing software: Word, WordPress, Book Wright, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Blurb, etc. Making your travel book is not impossible, but you will need to manage the layout, printing and setting a fare to capture readers. In short, you will be the "marketing product leader" of your trip.

What is the price to publish his travel book?

It is very difficult to estimate the price to publish a book of his trips, several parameters are to be taken into account: the number of copies to print, the number of pages in black and white, the number of pages in colour, the desired format of pages, the format of printing (recto or recto/verso) and the type of binding and cover (souple, rigid). Because the more voluminous the travel notebook, the more expensive it will be sold by the publisher, or – in case of auto edition – the more expensive it will cost in printing.

How to promote his travel notebook?

Then comes the fateful, most difficult stage: making his book known to a wider audience. Promoting his travel book, in digital or paper format is not easy. To ensure its own communication, one forgets its feather and is commercial. We will first think of the internet: on Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Instagram, Pinterest, Tweeter, etc., we must make a place among readers in search of a good book to read. Literary salons, literature contests, ear-mouthing, demarcation in bookstores, join a community of author-readers, create a website and blog about the travel book, are all levers to get known.