Apr 15 2008
As you can tell by the title, my impatience with publishers is rising. Their loose association with integrity becomes more evident every day. Last week, it was discovered that Lonely Planet, a travel guide publisher, was putting out books by an author who a) plagiarized and b) didn’t even travel to the places he wrote(…)
Apr 13 2008
Lonely Planet travel guide author Thomas Kohnstamm admits to plagiarizing parts of travel guides for Lonely Planet, not actually going to the places reported in his books, and by taking money and perks from the travel industry. Kohnstamm never even went to Colombia instead, “I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information(…)
Aug 17 2007
I’ve traveled a bit in my time and I never go anywhere without a travel book, but sometimes I end up buying more than one because each travel book has its own strengths, and, of course, its own weaknesses. Lonely Planet, one of the better guidebooks on the market, is using digital technology to address(…)
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