How did you decide what to include in The Pittsburgh Guidebook?

We curated a diverse mix of our favorite museums, attractions, parks, and events across southwest Pennsylvania, focusing on variety rather than trying to include everything.

Why isn't [insert your favorite here] in the book?

To keep printing costs manageable, we set a cap on the number of entries. Some places and events, including those with uncertain futures, were left out and may be reconsidered in future editions.

Why is the book priced at $22.99?

The book is a high-quality 6x9 guide with color photos on every entry, which significantly increases print costs. The price was set to cover these costs while still being reasonable. For a lower-cost option, we offer a digital PDF version at $10.

Isn't everything available on Discover the Burgh for free?

Yes, every experience in the book has been featured on Discover the Burgh in some form. The guidebook is a curated, ad-free offline companion, and purchasing it also supports local independent media in Pittsburgh.

Why didn't you include restaurants, bars, and breweries?

The original concept included food and drink, but after starting the first draft in early 2020, many places closed or changed. To avoid constant turnover, we focused this edition on more stable attractions and may create a separate food and drink guide in the future.

How are you keeping track of changes to businesses featured?

We maintain a dedicated resource page on Discover the Burgh with a running log of changes, a report-a-change form, an interactive map, and links to official sites and our reviews.

Is The Pittsburgh Guidebook available on Kindle?

The guidebook is not currently available as a dedicated Kindle edition. Instead, we offer it as a PDF download to keep costs down. Readers can upload the PDF to Kindle using Amazon’s standard process and can contact us if they would like to see a specific Kindle version in the future.

How do I access my digital download?

After purchase, you are taken to a customer portal where your order receipt and a Downloads section appear. Click the book name there to reach a page with a Download button. You should also receive an email titled 'Access Your Purchase' with a direct download link.

Who is your publisher?

The Pittsburgh Guidebook is fully self-published. We handled the writing, editing, photography, and formatting and use IngramSpark as our printing service, which may result in minor variations between copies.

What print-on-demand variations may exist?

Because the book is printed on demand rather than in bulk, there may be slightly longer shipping times and small printing variations such as trim lines, bleed differences, and color variation.

Do you sell The Pittsburgh Guidebook on wholesale?

Yes. We offer wholesale pricing for local museums, shops, and stores. The book is available through Ingram’s iPage portal and other wholesale services under the title The Pittsburgh Guidebook or ISBN 9798999657909, and we recommend a retail price of $22.99.

Privacy Policy - The Pittsburgh Guidebook

Name: The Pittsburgh Guidebook: 175 Things to Do in Pittsburgh
Price: 22.99 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9798999657909

The Pittsburgh Guidebook is a publication by Discover the Burgh®, a member of World of Discovery Media LLC.

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All sales are final. If you are having an issue with a print copy of The Pittsburgh Guidebook, please reach out to the point of purchase. If you are having an issue with a digital copy, please contact us.

2. Use License

We do not allow any use of our content, both on this website or in The Pittsburgh Guidebook for any reason without written permission. All rights are reserved.

3. Disclaimer

The materials on The Pittsburgh Guidebook (website and book) are provided “as is”. Discover the Burgh makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, Discover the Burgh does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

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In no event shall Discover the Burgh or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on Discover the Burgh’s Internet site or The Pittsburgh Guidebook, even if Discover the Burgh or a Discover the Burgh authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

5. Revisions and Errata

The materials appearing on Discover the Burgh’s web site or The Pittsburgh Guidebook could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Discover the Burgh does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. Discover the Burgh may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. Discover the Burgh does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

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8. Governing Law

Any claim relating to Discover the Burgh’s web site shall be governed by the laws of the State of USA without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Data Policy and Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.

Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

Recent changes to European privacy laws require us to share how we use data in operation of our sites. Although we are US based and receive primarily US based traffic, we believe in full disclosure for data usage all the same.

As bloggers, we use data rather minimally through 3rd party services such as in our analytics software, social media pages/profiles, and through our newsletter.

Our personal access to your data is quite minimal, but these services may use your data via your profiles, cookies, location, etc. in order to operate- most all of which is transmitted automatically purely because you are on this site (this would be true just about everywhere online).

But as we believe in full disclosure, we want to dive into greater detail on how data from these services is used on our sites.

Use of Personal Data

To put it simply, we do not require registration for you to use our site. That said, when purchasing The Pittsburgh Guidebook, we may have access to your name, email, mailing address, and other personal information depending on the nature of the purchase (e.g. on this website vs. in store).

We do use 3rd party programs which do track some data including demographics and cookies that we want to outline below.

As mentioned above, virtually all websites use services like these- not just us!

1) We use analytics software to monitor our site performance and growth and we do have access to ancillary data about each visitor (Examples: Google Analytics and StatCounter).

The data we have access to here can be read roughly as follows:

“Someone from [IP hosted by Company A] in [City/State] came to our site from [a Pinterest pin] on [date]. They viewed article X, then Y, and then Z. They were on an iPad and spent 15 minutes on our site. On article Z they clicked a link to [Amazon Product] and left our website. This user has visited our site before.”

“X% of our readers are female, Y% of our readers live in the USA, and Z% are over the age 55.”

In either of the above cases, we do not know your name, address, email, phone number, or other comparable information from the above.

If you comment on a blog post, we will see the information submitted (name, email) as well as your IP address. We do not use this data beyond having access to it. You will not be signed up for further notifications unless you check the boxes below the comment area to opt-in for further emails.

We only share broad demographic data when speaking to partners, and only personally use the data to provide a better user experience for you over time.

2) We use 3rd party social media networks and a mailing list service (Mailerlite).

To use these features of our site you must explicitly opt-in by liking a social media profile or submitting your email address. Links and sign up forms for these are available on our site, but they are not required for use.

By opting in, we may have access to your name, email address, and other associated data based on the individual site’s policies.

We do not use personal data (name, email, mailing address, phone number) in any capacity beyond its intended use (i.e. delivering newsletters to subscribers).

AI Policies

We believe content on blogs should be written by humans, for humans. As such, no content on any sites within World of Discovery Media LLC have been generated using any form of AI tools.

Right to Be Forgotten

You have the right to be forgotten on the sites you visit.

If following Discover the Burgh on social media or via our newsletter, you can unsubscribe or unfollow at any time, for any reason. You can remove cookies by clearing your browser history at any time.

We do not use your names/emails or data associated with any specific individual outside of their designated 3rd party services as noted above.

If you would like us to remove any further data, please email us and we’ll be happy to discuss our data policies further and see if we have any further data that can be removed.

But please note that by emailing us to discuss this, you have to tell us more data about yourself than we typically have access to in the first place. Weird, we know, but unfortunately we have to state this in order to be compliant.

If you have any questions regarding how we use data on our sites, please email us at [email protected].

For all other questions, please email [email protected] or write to us at Discover the Burgh, PO Box 100106, Pittsburgh, PA 15233.