Dorling Kindersley has agreed to sell travel publisher Rough Guides to APA Publications, which publishes Insight Guides and Berlitz. Terms were not disclosed. Reported in a statement from Penguin Random House in the UK, the Bookseller reports the company says DK will begin consultation with the 30 staff members who still work on Rough Guides. DK ceo Ian Hudson said the sale was made after a “wide-ranging travel publishing review,” adding that, “we believe that the future success of Rough Guides will be best secured with APA Publications.” Rough Guides was reorganized, and slimmed down, at least twice in recent years, first […]
