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Whitcoulls to sponsor new book awardWhitcoulls has announced that it will sponsor a new annual book award from next year. Entries are now open for the 2011 Whitcoulls Pictorial Travel Book of the Year...
TRavel publishers and authors upset by WHSmith/Penguin exclusive deal
Following last week's revelation that UK chain WHSmith's will now sell Penguin travel guides exclusively at its travel outlets, other travel book publishers and travel writers have voiced their concen...
WHSmith gets Heathrow monoply
WHSmith has gained a monoply on bookselling at London's Heathrow airport, worrying publishers, with one telling Book Brunch 'WHS terms are already pretty ghastly. The attitude, particularly at Travel,...
Lonely Planet to open concept store
Lonely Planet will open its first ‘concept store' at Sydney airport next year, the travel publisher has announced. Part of the airport's $500 million redevelopment, the shop will serve as &lsquo...
Zinio adds Rough Guides
Online publishing solutions provider Zinio has added the Rough Guides travel books to its service, along with a number of niche travel magazines.
Globe Pequot Press buys Compass Maps
Globe Pequot Press has increased its holdings in travle publishing, buying Compass Maps. GPP bought the Footprint travel guides last year.
Folding maps to be recalled in UK
Booksellers and distributors in the UK selling Berlitz-branded Pocket Maps are expecting to be asked to withdraw the products from sale this week, due to legal proceedings taken ag...
Travel publishers 'missing out on £19 million'
Travel publishers in the UK have missed out on a reported £19 million (A$38.6 million) in sales last year due to discounting, according to the second annual Travel Publishing Yearbook....
Fodor's goes mobile
Travel publisher Fodor's (owned by Random House US) has entered into a partnership with mobile search company AskMeNow to deliver free travel content to mobile phone users.
New owner for Footprint travel guides
Morris Communications, parent company of Globe Pequot Press, has acquired UK-based travel publisher Footprint Books. Founded in 1924, Footprint has a backlist of 80 titles.
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