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
The Gay Travel Guide for Tops and Bottoms press also added that the book was intended as a humorous review and does not list any locations where men can find sex. The author, Drew Blancs, spent 5 years traveling and writing the book. Blancs was a blogger from Los Angeles who had never written a book before and wrote it to assist people with finding compatible sex partners. "The Gay Travel Guide for Tops and Bottoms" set a sales record at its publisher "Icon Empire Press" for a new release. Robert Joseph of Goodreads praised the book calling it funny and recommended it "to those who are looking