Lonely Planet eBooks

Experience travel guides like
never before

Revolutionary technology meets award-winning travel content. An increasing range of Lonely Planet books are now available as eBooks—electronic versions that can be viewed on numerous e-reader devices. The Lonely Planet content you know and trust enhanced with many features enabled by e-reader devices.

See the FAQs for more detail on eBooks.

Inspiring, informative & interactive

Everything you love about Lonely Planet guides, plus:

Zoom in on full colour images and Lonely Planet maps.
View maps and points of interest online via Google maps (requires a device with internet connection).
Seamlessly flip between pages, jump between maps and reviews, or visit the websites of recommended places.
Listen to audio foreign language phrases spoken aloud.
Search, add notes, and use the built-in dictionary.

Features vary across products and e-reader devices. Read more about enhancements for Kindle, iPad and NOOK devices, or see FAQs for more detail.

From inspiration to on-the-road

We’re currently expanding our eBook range. Most books and new editions of our guidebooks and phrasebooks are also being released as eBooks. There are eBooks across the entire Lonely Planet range, including:

Country and City guides
Our most comprehensive guides for planning and on-the-road
Chapters from our Country guides
Purchase only the information you want
Discover Country Guides
Full colour guides that get you straight to a country’s highlights
Encounter City Guides
Top sights, local life, and only the best of the city
Audio Phrasebooks
Comprehensive language guides enhanced with audio translations
Travel Literature
Entertaining stories from some of the world’s best travel writers
Travel pictorials, reference and coffee table books
From armchair guides to beautiful photo pictorials

Read more about what is available for Kindle, iPad and NOOK devices, or see FAQs for more detail.

Guidebooks and individual chapters are also available from lonelyplanet.com in PDF format. They can be viewed on e-readers, tablets, PCs, and also be printed. For more information, see our FAQs, or go to the Lonely Planet Shop
to purchase.

Available from multiple retailers and for your favourite device

You can buy Lonely Planet eBooks from various retailers, and for various e-readers. While an eBook you buy from one retailer may be viewable on numerous devices, often they are optimized for a certain device. The table below illustrates retailer and device compatibility, with the optimal device for each retailer highlighted in blue.