Lonely Planet
- Lonely Planet is the world’s leading independent travel publisher
- Lonely Planet is still privately owned after more than 30 years in business.
- Lonely Planet publishes almost 500 titles in English, covering every corner of the planet, with more than 6.5 million books sold annually.
- 80 million unique journeys: In August 2006 Lonely Planet printed their 80 millionth book and shipped it off to the warehouse for sale.
- Lonely Planet’s website receives over 5 million unique visitors every month from over 170 countries.
- Our guidebooks are published in a number of languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, German, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
- Lonely Planet has sold over 5 million phrasebooks and has the most comprehensive language coverage of any travel publisher.
- Across Asia on the Cheap, Lonely Planet’s best-selling first guidebook, sold 1500 copies in its first printrun, followed by two reprints, totalling a lifetime printrun of 8500 copies. These days, Lonely Planet’s bestseller titles sell in the hundreds of thousands.
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