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Bittersweet: seeing a whole wall of the unmistakable blue spines of Lonely Planet guides behind him, another venerable publishing institution that's having a hard time transitioning to the digital age.


What problem do they face, exactly?


Why buy some travel guide that's out of date as soon as it's published when you can go to the LP Thorn Tree forums?


Hm, never been there.

I thought travel guide is a convenient format, and they do sell their books as pdf's, per-chapter if desired, so I thought they are doing well?


Or use trip advisor and /r/travel.




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