5 reasons to be outraged by the Lonely Planet fraud

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It is amazing — and scary — that so many people can have such strong opinions on a book they have not even read!

I myself immediately pre-ordered the book (release date today!, at least in Europe) as I would like to try making a living by being a travel writer myself, and as I think Lonely Planet does set the standard for guidebooks (with a few exceptions such as 'Portugal' and 'Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands').

So I want to make my own opinion. And this, I can only do by actually reading the book. Not just by judging on the different opinions on websites and in fora like this one.

Besides — Gadling.com got itself quite a few new readers on this whole 'case' too, didn't you!?!

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