What do Cicerone guidebooks, an adventure app acquisition, the Luddite uprising of 1811, the Outside crisis, and the music of Ludwig van Beethoven have in common? Dear reader, I am glad you asked...
Yes super exciting! Just read the intro and first story last night, they did a great job. The format of doing it in a book size is very interesting. I kinda like it.
There’s almost too much here. Too many points I would like to respond to. For now I’ll pick up on the discussion of guidebooks, having done quite a few myself for walking, cycling, and climbing. I’m trying to remember the exact date but my guess is very early 2010s, I organised an event on behalf of the OWPG at the National Cycling Centre on the future of guidebooks. I know both Cicerone and Vertebrate were represented. My takeaway then, expressed by various people in various ways, is that successful guidebooks had to marry information and inspiration.
Cheers for your thoughts, Jon, and I think you're 100% right. What interests me is how this balance is ever shifting. I'm sure Cicerone, Vertebrate etc. will have data on this rather than my own anecdotal impressions, but I've definitely seen a bit of a split in the market over the last few years.
Great newsletter! I just got my issue of New Mountain Magazine in the mail. Excited to read through it.
So great to see all these new print magazines popping up!
Yes super exciting! Just read the intro and first story last night, they did a great job. The format of doing it in a book size is very interesting. I kinda like it.
There’s almost too much here. Too many points I would like to respond to. For now I’ll pick up on the discussion of guidebooks, having done quite a few myself for walking, cycling, and climbing. I’m trying to remember the exact date but my guess is very early 2010s, I organised an event on behalf of the OWPG at the National Cycling Centre on the future of guidebooks. I know both Cicerone and Vertebrate were represented. My takeaway then, expressed by various people in various ways, is that successful guidebooks had to marry information and inspiration.
Cheers for your thoughts, Jon, and I think you're 100% right. What interests me is how this balance is ever shifting. I'm sure Cicerone, Vertebrate etc. will have data on this rather than my own anecdotal impressions, but I've definitely seen a bit of a split in the market over the last few years.