BBC Worldwide that Channel 4 merge with either the commercial network Five or BBC Worldwide. Channel 4's preferred option of a partnership with the latter was confirmed by chief executive Andy Duncan, who added: "We're in discussions with BBC Worldwide at the moment and they're really very exciting." In the same year, the company was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in recognition of the companies growth and success. In 2012, the company began to reorganise their divisions from a product based system to a location-based system, resulting in Jana Bennett leaving the company. BBC Worldwide sold Lonely Planet in 2013 to
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