The ebook has changed, is changing and will change society as we know it. Although many conservatives deny it, I personally believe that it is so and more with the news of Lonely Planet.
Lonely Planet is a publisher specialized in the subject of travel and whose tourist guides are renowned and known worldwide. They are not usually very expensive and give a very different vision of the destination of the traveler. They are highly recommended. A few months ago Lonely Planet In collaboration with Inkling they got down to work on rework several of your tourist guides to transport them to the digital world. Thanks to the help of Inkling, Lonely Planet create tourist guides based on enriched books.
All this will mean that we have, on the one hand, an updated guide at the moment, with more content and personalized. On the other hand it will make us have our guide on a mobile device, tablet or eReader, as it will also be published in HTML5 format.
In each tourist guide we will find up to 30 suggested trips whose duration lasts from two days to two weeks maximum. It is also accompanied by interactive maps, using geolocation where possible, and a weather widget that will allow us to program new trips or customize existing ones to our liking and / or needs. According to the spokespersons for the two companies, Lonely Planet and InklingSuch is the development of this skill of the guides that it will allow to program everything, from packing up to going home through the hotel registration. They assure that the experience is incredible.
The guides will be priced at $ 14,99 and are currently only available in this format the guides for California, New England, Pacific Northwest, France, Ireland, and Italy.
Lonely Planet create tourist guides based on the enriched books
For those who are travelers, it is a highly recommended element to use and I hope that this system will be extended by all the guides of Lonely Planet since not only do they allow us to have a broader, updated guide of the moment but it is also more portable and adaptable to our trips, since the minimum needs are a mobile, although personally I would prefer it to be used on an eReader, due to the problems autonomy.
So far, the main publishers on tourist guides, including its own Lonely Planet published their guides in pdf and already offered a digital guide, however with this step, The Guide "truly”Is digital, now we only have to wait how the other publishers of the competition will respond and what difference they will make compared to Lonely Planet.
What do you think about this step of Lonely Planet? Do you find it interesting or are you detractors of these guides? It seems that tourism ebooks are beginning to wake up.
More information - Traveling with our ebook: what guide do I take?
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Image - Lonely Planet Spanish website