Death of the Guidebook
Chris Taylor for the age.com looks at “The Death of the Guidebook: Lost in a Cutthroat World”
It is little commented on, but the huge proliferation of guidebook titles that now line bookshop shelves coincided with the rise of the internet. In times past, the only way to research a guidebook was to actually go there — the alternative, plagiarising another guidebook, was, and still is, difficult to cover up. Today, you can sit at home and Google the town you might otherwise be exploring on foot, and hopefully some random blogger has done the legwork for you.
