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Lonely Planet has announced that Richard Samson, general manager, Asia-Pacific, has resigned from his position for health reasons. Samson has been battling a serious illness for over a year, and is st...
Lonely Planet has announced a new distributor for its products in New Zealand. From 5 September 2010 Craig Potton Publishing will be the publisher's exclusive distributor in New Zealand, taking ...
Lonely Planet has ‘moved from a loss of £(3.2)million [$A5.7 million] last year to a profit of £1.9million [A$3.4 million] ', according to the 2009/10 full-year financial report of p...
A beta version of Platinum Planet, a website aimed at helping independent booksellers, is being trialed by Lonely Planet Europe and UK for booksellers in that region. Described as a 'virtual sales rep...
Lonely Planet has confirmed it has made some changes to its print and digital teams. ‘We have been very open saying we are moving from traditional book publishing to a multi-media t...
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Sue Norton as senior vice-president and head of Lonely Planet Television, to be based in the BBC Worldwide Productions office in Los Angeles. Reporting t...
The Jaipur Literature Festival, which ran from 21 to 25 January, attracted more than 20,000 people and more than 200 speakers. Among the speakers was Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler, who spoke to f...
Lonely Planet has announced that the publication of the 15th edition of its Australia guide will officially be the publisher's 100 millionth guidebook in print. To celebrate, the company is laun...
The Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, a key component in Melbourne successful bid for UNESCO City of Literature status, is to be named The Wheeler Centre after the founders of Lonely Planet, it was...
BBC Worldwide has denied it intends to sell its 75% shareholding in Lonely Planet, after speculation in the UK press that the company would divest itself of the travel publisher it acquired a 75% stak...