According to an interview in Blackbook, Lonely Planet is launching a new series of interactive travel ebooks.
The digital format will allow them to include hyperlinks within the book and to external websites. For example, POIs will include hyperlinked website addresses. Places can be bookmarked and terms can be searched in Google or Wikipedia.
The new Discover series is meant to be viewed on the iPad initially and they are looking to get it on the iPhone. Five ebooks are available: Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy and France with more titles on the way. As new Discover titles are issued in print they intend to release them in ebook format as well.
Much more info in the article. Thanks to eBookNewser for the heads up.
Fantastic news! I’m off to South America in two weeks, and downloaded 3 guides on ebooktravelguides.com – will definitely check these out for my ipad that arrived today! yippee!