Megadodo Publications
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Megadodo Publications is a fictional publishing company invented by Douglas Adams. Original publishers of that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the company's headquarters were a thirty story tall building in the shape of an "H" on Ursa Minor Beta, which is such an expensive resort planet for a company that sells books about the hitchhiking lifestyle that many of Megadodo's customers found the company had lost their credibility. The offices were later abducted by a squadron of Frogstar fighters and brought to the Frogstar, in an attempt to capture and discipline rogue galactic president Zaphod Beeblebrox. Their lobby is always filled with grubby looking hitchhikers wanting to complain about the Guide’s innaccuracy. The president of Megadodo Publications is Zarniwoop, who is always too cool to see visitors. Megadodo was criticized by its customers for setting up a virtual 3D map of the universe to collect book information without leaving their offices. Notably secretive (or destructive) about their financial and historical records, the entire company was later (in Mostly Harmless) bought out by Infinidim Enterprises, which stopped selling the Guide to hitchhikers entirely and removed all of what Megadodo had once stood for, much to the disapproval of employee Ford Prefect.
