Did you know that cookbooks are one of the top two best-selling genres of all books, second only to mystery novels? That’s right – more cookbooks are sold than any other type of book with the exception of mysteries! Incredibly, cookbooks out-sell romance novels, biographies, self help books, heath and nutrition titles…you name it.
Cookbook sales make up a very substantial portion of all book sales in the publishing industry.
The market for cookbooks is endless and insatiable. Cookbook buyers typically don’t buy just one cookbook. They often don’t stop after several. Cookbook buyers frequently have huge collections of cookbooks. And they’re always interested in more.
Consumers purchase a whopping 60 million cookbooks each year. And that’s just the figure for North America. The numbers of cookbooks sold in any given year are equally staggering in the UK, Europe and many other parts of the globe as well. Foreign rights sales of your cookbook can add up to even more additional income when you become a cookbook author. Cookbooks are a huge, thriving, lucrative industry.
Think about it. People give cookbooks as gifts. They read them for pleasure. They collect them. They proudly display them on their bookshelves, in their kitchens and on their coffee tables. And of course, they use them for their very practical purpose – to cook from!
Everyone eats. And almost everyone will at some point cook or bake and use a cookbook to try and do it better.
Stop to consider what all this really means for a moment and you’ll start to realize the opportunity and potential here. Play this right and writing a cookbook could turn into a very successful and profitable venture for you. In fact, your cookbook can ultimately lead to an entire enterprise around which a very lucrative business can be built. Cookbook authors get lucrative product endorsement deals and licensing arrangements, opportunties to host their own cooking shows or to write syndicated columns, and more.
Think of Martha Stewart. Did you know that her multi-million dollar empire all began with one cookbook when she was an unknown housewife? Yes, it was a cookbook that started it all for her.
Cookbooks are – and always have been – proven best-sellers. Each and every year cookbooks are included high up on the nation’s best-seller list. The market for cookbooks is huge – and it just continues to grow. There’s an enormous level of demand for cookbooks.
That means terrific opportunity and profit potential for anyone thinking of writing a cookbook.
A published cookbook can be a terrific way to earn income and prestige, not to mention the admiration of others.
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