Marijke's blog

the ebook generation

Obviously, I am interested in the facts and figures concerning ebooks. I learned for example that only 0,3% of the total booksales in the Netherlands consists out of ebooks. Doesn’t sound to impressive. I like the numbers Amazon gave better: the sales of ebooks was larger than the sales of hardcover books in the first quarter of 2010. Note: hardcover books are clearly a small subset of the total print sales, so it sounded better than it was.

At the beginning of 2011, however: Read the rest of this entry »

That’s the question. The first paragraph looked like good news; as long as it was an adapted (MyMaps) map, I could use Google Maps. I think. That is, as long as I assume that pdf’s and e-books count as print. Hm… not exactly that. But not exactly software either. An app is software allright. But digital documents are kind of undefined in the middle.

Anyways, after re-reading the Google Maps rules and regulations, it seems like I am still destined to make my own maps.

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What is that about that new word: mediapreneur?

If I would have my way, I would do nothing else but surfing the net, collecting tidbits of information that interest me and put them on this blog. That w0uld not make me a living though, I guess.

So I decided to collect some interesting information around one certain topic – the famous flavours of cities around the world – , combine that info into one single user friendly document and sell the document. I guess that in fact could make me a living. Read the rest of this entry »

Yep, I do. I love his energy, his sticky one liners and his cleverness.

And what I also love, is the fact that this video from risetothetop.com confirmed that I am on the right path with my Blazer Guides publishing project. Read the rest of this entry »