he world’s leading travel

media company. The deal makes hundreds of

Lonely Planet’s

award-winning travel guidebooks available as part of

Scribd’s low monthly subscription cost.

Along with this partnership, Scribd announced a new feature, the ability to bookmark pages within a book, allowing travelers easy access to bookmarked content during their travels. Travelers can sync their bookmarks seamlessly across all of

their devices and take advantage of Scribd’s offline reading feature

, saving the guidebooks on their devices in order to access on the go, even without an Internet connection.

“

Travel is the perfect category for e-books. Not only does having an e-book at

one’s

fingertips lighten a traveler

’

s load while on the go, Scribd offers a great value by enabling readers to access all of the Lonely Planet guides in one all- you-can-read subscription,

” said Trip Adler, CEO and co

-founder of Scribd.

“Lonely Planet

publishes some of my favorite travel guides, and I know our readers will appreciate having such an inspiring and trusted source available across all of their devices

—

Apple, A ndroid, an d Kindle F ire

.” “

We are thrilled to work with Scribd, as part of our brand commitment is to make our award-winning content available to consumers in whatever format best suits their needs,

” said Darren O’Connell, Product Director of Guidebooks and

E-

books for Lonely Planet. “

Scribd is a fantastic partner for e-book subscription service as they have an amazing reach with more than 80 million users around the world, and a subscriber base that is growing.

”

All Lonel y Planet g uidebook s are av ailable i mmediately at