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Lonely Planet's Best in Travel free on iBookstore

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Lonely Planet has a deal going on in the iBookstore to advertise some of its published offerings there. For a limited time, the Best in Travel 2011 book can be downloaded in iBooks for free. The book ranks the top 10 places to visit around the world this year, featuring special one-time only ...

Lonely Planet launches audio walking tours in London

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2011)

This is a cool new feature in travel apps that I'd like to see a lot more of: Lonely Planet has released some walking audio tours as apps on the App Store. Unfortunately, all of the tours so far are just based in London, but the apps will walk you around some of London's most interesting areas, ...

Lonely Planet giving away free iPhone guides in honor of Eyjafjallajökull messing with Europe

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 19th, 2010)

Did Eyjafjallajökull mess your week up? The answer is probably "no" if you're asking who Eyjafjallajökull is. For those of us who did have our week interrupted by that big exploding volcano in Iceland, Lonely Planet is offering thirteen of its City Guides for free in the App Store (and ...

Lonely Planet San Francisco City Guide for iPhone free for a limited time

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 2nd, 2009)

Normally the Lonely Planet guides for iPhone are $15.99, so any way you look at it, getting the San Francisco guide (iTunes link) for free is a great purchase. At worst you'll see if you like the Lonely Planet way of doing things in a travel guide and at best you might discover something new in San ...

New iPhone ads now showing

by Michael Rose (Aug 22nd, 2008)

There are a couple of three new iPhone ads showing tonight, "Lonely Planet," "Cro Mag" and "Vicinity." All are available on Apple's ads page now (that is, if your Friday night needs a shot of pure excitement). The ads focus on the App Store and the ease of downloading new iPhone applications ...