There is strong evidence that the Beeb - which has no mandate from anyone in the government or from the licence payer to divert licence fee funds to on-line publishing - is recruiting on the cheap and further dumbing down its previous rigorous standards.

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Prior to Google's purchase of Frommer's for an undisclosed fee last year, it was owned by fellow publishing business Wiley and Sons.

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