Travel guide company Fodor’s announced recently that they will be providing a series of city guides as mobile apps for iOS. Free for the first time, the apps from the… Read more »

“It sounded like a better, lighter way to pack for a trip to Germany: a Kindle with a Lonely Planet travel guide in lieu of an 844-page brick of a… 10 / Read more »

And so the ripple effect begins: A report in the Bookseller by Victoria Gallagher says that travel books have been hit hard by the financial crisis. She reports an 8.7%… Read more »

In Russia during Soviet times, “the idea of guidebooks was as strange as the concept of travel itself.” But things are different now, and a Moscow Times report by Victor… Read more »

The founder of Lonely Planet, the popular travel guide line, is leaving the company, although reasons why remain murky. An extremely brief Booktrade Info report says both founder Katharine Leck… Read more »

Some prominent travel book publishers, such as the publishers of the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide series are trying to use their expertise to help victims of the tsunamis. As… Read more »

For 25 years, she ran one of London’s most popular bookstores, The Travel Bookshop, but now Sarah Anderson has sold the store and embarked on a ’round the world tour… Read more »