Google Buys Frommer’s Travel Guidebook

Adding to its food and tourism portfolio, Google purchased John Wiley & Sons Inc.’s travel assets, including Frommer’s, one of the best-selling guidebook series in the world, for an undisclosed price Monday. The deal, which includes 350 travel guides and Frommers.com, is scheduled to close in the next few weeks.

Google of Mountain View has not decided whether to continue printing the popular Frommer's guidebooks. The publications could become online-only products.

John Wiley & Sons said it intends to sell some of its consumer print and digital publishing assets… because they no longer fit in with the company's long-term business strategy.