Jani Patokallio was first bitten by the travel bug on the age of eight months and hasn’t managed to shake it yet. Halfway via racking up 650,000 flight miles as a telecommuting marketing consultant, he jumped ship to become co-founder and managing editor of pioneering print-on-demand travel publisher Wikitravel Press , with OpenFlights as a side undertaking. Previously Publishing Platform Architect at Lonely Planet , Jani now works in Google’s Cloud group in Sydney.
Because we couldn’t. Wikitravel Press’s contract with Internet Brands was only for printed merchandise, not digital merchandise. We’d asked for digital rights originally, but needed to give method, and our new attempts so as to add them to the contract were tersely rebuffed. Since Wikitravel content material is open to all, we may have tried our luck without the brand or the links from the website, however then there would have been little to differentiate us …