Thomas Crampton

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David Sifry’s 30,000 Offbeat Guides

Nov 27, 2008

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David Sifry, serial entrepreneur and founder of blog search service Technorati, flew to Stockholm for this interview about Offbeat Guides. David’s newly launched personalized guide books are a new concept in publishing, where books are printed on demand to match a traveler’s exact itinerary and dates.

Combining proprietary information and information from the Internet, Offbeat Guides cover 30,000 destinations around the world.

Since each guide is unique, this start-up could make David the most prolific author in history.

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  • I like this guide idea it’s very useful and cost effective instead of buying books where most of the information is not relevant to your trip
  • Philip Cornwel-Smith
    Hey Tom, as a guidebook writer I'm always interested to see where my living is headed. This resembles the photocopies of chapters of different guides I took on my first trip to Asia. Long overdue and a great idea.

    I'm also in the process of rethinking the guidebook in my next book on Bangkok. I'll let you know more when I'm finished, which will be a few months' time.

    When are you next in Bkk Tom? Of course, you'll have to swim, drive or parachute in...
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