Lonely Planet has introduced a competition for professional and amateur photographers alike that may end in their travel picture appearing on the Lonely Planet guide cover.  As the top travel guide publisher in the world, Lonely Planet has linked together with Pikeo.com, a new website for photo-sharing, for the competition.

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Lonely Planet and Nokia have teamed up in order to bing travel guides to the mobile phones of Nokia.  The mobile phones users that have the support for the Maps 2.0 application, which is free, will have the ability to purchase and download travel guides from Lonely Planet directly onto their mobiles.  Every guide is priced at 13.99 dollars, which is just a little cheaper than the same version in paper, of which sells for about 18 dollars each.
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