Lonely Planet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Lonely Planet


00:00:28 1 History
00:00:37 1.1 Early years
00:04:01 1.2 Expansion
00:06:12 1.3 Purchase by BBC Worldwide
00:11:48 1.4 NC2 Media acquisition
00:13:58 1.5 Appointment of new CEO and restructure
00:16:26 1.6 Houghton and NC2 Media era
00:18:39 2 Products
00:18:48 2.1 Internet presence
00:21:20 2.2 Magazine
00:21:56 2.3 Television series
00:22:48 3 Controversies
00:23:53 4 In popular culture
00:24:34 5 See also



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Lonely Planet is a large travel guide book publisher. The Lonely Planet books were the third series of travel books aimed at backpackers and other low-cost travellers, after the Let's Go travel guide series that was founded in 1960, and the BIT Guides from 1970.  As of  2011, the company had sold 120 million books since inception and by early 2014, it had sold around 11 million units of its travel apps.