BBC Worldwide Collection International to form 2 Entertain, which was part owned by BBC Worldwide; the following year the company sold "Eve" magazine to Haymarket Group and in 2006 the company sold a majority stake in BBC Books to publisher Random House. In 2007 BBC Worldwide purchased a 75% stake in the travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, acquiring the final 25% of the company in 2011. The acquisition was part of the BBC's strategy to grow its online portfolio and to increase its operations in Australia and the USA. In January 2009 it was announced that Ofcom had put forward the recommendation
BBC Books TV cook Delia Smith, wildlife titles by Sir David Attenborough and gardening titles by Alan Titchmarsh. In the BBC Publishing days, it turned down "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide. Since 1996, BBC Books has also produced a range of tie-in novels connected to the television science-fiction series "Doctor Who", the only full-length fiction to be printed by the company. Their first release related to the series was a novelisation of the 1996 "Doctor Who" telemovie published in the spring of 1996. Then, in 1997, BBC Books launched two concurrent