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All Lonely Planet eBooks $10 Online
All Lonely Planet eBooks $10 Online
All Lonely Planet eBooks for $10 Each Online
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grasstown on 23/07/2013 - 21:20 lonelyplanet.com (466 clicks)
Last edited 24/07/2013 - 18:33 by 1 other user
Last edited 24/07/2013 - 18:33 by 1 other user
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All ebooks should be free~~~
Why?
It costs them money to research and develop a book. Do you give your business and services away for free?!?
Yes, they should be paying us!
Is this only for the pdf ebooks or is there a way to get the equivalent iPad versions for $10 ?
Lonely Planet may not be around for too many more years:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-22/lonely-planet-denies-e…Hmm. I'm not sure what the new owners are trying to achieve with these moves, other than maximising profits.
That's usually the point of buying a business isn't it? Aside from the occasional good news story, the entire point of business is to maximize profits…
Is this cheap enough for brucefromaustralia?
But is it simple enough for boredstan?
Not yet :-)
Considered it. But, just borrowed the latest (2012) LP Japan from the library. Maps & intro (suggested itineraries, etc) are free to download. So will scan under 100 pages as PDF to phone for next hols.
Latest Japanese edition is basically same as 2010 guide plus post tsunami update - dating from when I was last there. So not worth paying for out of date info, when the $9 Dell printer/scanner lies idle. (In Myanmar earlier this year, the LP was considered a joke as so much had changed since the latest edition.)
Besides, most of my destinations are not listed in the LP. The guides are just handy starting points.Guide books or their electronic equivalents seem quaint & from a different age given free WiFi & online travel forums with advice from people who are presently where you are going.
Wondered what happened to you - missed out on that printer deal…
I suspect LP Guides are about to turn to shite - they're making noises consistent with not generating quality content. Bit of a worry as there's nothing else decent for many destinations, apart from these forums you speak of i guess.
Never been to Japan. Full of foreigners.
Saw too many confronting things this year. It's the downside of going beyond the pages of the LP.
Will relax in a few Onsen in Japan. A 1240 year old Shinto ceremony, and walking 1000+ year old mountain paths should cleanse my mind of what I have experienced.
I did that in the past, but one problem with scanning, at least with a flat bed scanner, is that the book will not lie flat so the part of the page near the spine is insufficiently lit and slightly out of focus.
On the other hand even when I took along scan PDFs, I seldom referred to them, as online information is so much more current. In the future I think the only guide books that will survive are those that give a background to the place for trip preparation, like Insight Guides. It's hard to see how practical information in paper or even eBook guides such as where to stay can survive the onslaught of up-to-date web pages. I don't see a bright future for LP in its current form. You can see from their website they are trying to get revenue from hookups with travel providers but Tripadvisor ate that lunch.
Guide books seem as dated as the old encyclopedias once seen as the repositories of knowledge - there's often a lot of out of date information.
I like & use TripAdvisor. Of course information can be inaccurate, like all community based sources. And opinions are often biased.
Insight Guides are often the first guide book I grab, for an overview of a country & cultures.
As for scanning, I rarely have those problems with the new scanner, and it depends a lot on the book being scanned. You need to be brutal with the spine to open the pages & apply pressure to keep it flat to the glass.
You need to be brutal with the spine to open the pages & apply pressure to keep it flat to the glass.
Yeah, but I'd like stay on good terms with my local library. :( I'm sure LP makes the spines that way to discourage scanning.
As for biased information online, that's part of the flavour. Guide book information is written not to offend anybody that it's sometimes hard to tell whether an attraction would suit you. By looking at the background of the online commenter, you can get an idea whether their biases are relevant to you.
Insight Guides are a handy visual guide book. Met their photographer in South Korea. Many photos had not been updated in 4 decades. Still, a temple is a temple & looks much the same as when it was built.
Copy and paste would allow me to condense essential info onto on page if you don't want to take technology. Anyone know if possible?
It's not possible. I've checked.
A program called Calibre may be of use to you.
Hi,
It's a shame many of the eBooks are only available in PDF format (not ePub)….
Cheers,
VictorI have just ordered one book. The download link showed me the options to download in PDF, mobi or ePub formats.
Grammar
The mod changed:
"All Lonely Planet eBooks $10 Online"
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"All Lonely Planet eBooks for $10 Each Online"My question is, putting aside the absurdity that results from the interpretation of greenlego and dealman, does "All Lonely Planet eBooks $10 Online" definitely mean that you can buy Every ebook for $10, or could it equally and validly
mean all books are priced at $10. Given the absence of any form of preposition in the original title.
Take it easy, it was not a personal attack , just a clarification.
I'm easy just bored and wonder if it was really that unclear that you both had to ask me to correct it. Mines not a personal attack either, but it didn't need clarification.
It was Wrong.
If you are still in doubt , you can check with a grammar nazi somewhere else.
Thanks for posting the deal, appreciate the effort just corrected a minor detail.
No worries, it was not wrong.
The initial title was fine ffs - only a brain-damaged budgie would have had difficulty with it, and they wouldn't have the firepower to go through the online ordering process anyway, even if they needed a holiday.
God, why am i so cranky today?
Cool, Just got me NZ. Tablets and ebooks save space and weight when travelling
Hi,
Ok, I've bought the books - there's an annoying download limit - you can only download them 5 time, after which I assume they disable the downloads from your account.
This is quite annoying - if you compare this to somebody like O'Reilly, or heck, even Amazon, where you can download as many times as you like, since you've bought the books. I'd definitely buy again from O'Reilly or Amazon - I'd think twice about using Lonely Planet for eBooks.
I'm not quite sure what the point of limiting it is, other than to inconveniencing customers - if you really wanted to leak the books, or share them, you only need to download them once. However, I thought the whole point of creating an account with them, and buying stuff over the cloud (as opposed to them mailing you a physical CD) was that you could login from anywhere, and download the book.
Cheers,
Victor…you only need to download them once.
Yes you do.
Thank you for posting. The new 2013 Lonely Planet Japan guide isn't due until early to mid September, but I was able to grab the ebook version over a month early, and for $10. Having a physical copy is more of a hindrance for me, especially when traveling.
Can you copy and paste from Ebooks?