We also came across a lovely musing about travel books, those heavy tomes we used to tote from place to place, stuffed into our backpacks alongside the Eurail Pass (I'm including the link in case you're tempted to revisit those days!). To lighten the load, my traveling companion and I used to rip out cities and discard them after we'd visit - sacrilege! Adam Penenberg talks about the slow and possibly inevitable decline of Lonely Planet here. We especially love this piece because Penenberg is going to be a speaker at our Publishing Business Conference & Expo in September. He has a new book coming out called Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking, and his conference talk is entitled: Games Are Serious Business: Using Game Design in Publishing.
- People:
- Adam Penenberg
- Places:
- Seattle