Megadodo Publications

Megadodo Publications is a fictional publishing company invented by Douglas Adams. They are the original publishers of "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; as this planet is such an expensive resort planet, it caused the Megadodo company, as the publisher of books about the hitchhiking lifestyle, to lose much of its credibility among its customer base. 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. The Megadodo lobby is always filled with grubby looking hitchhikers wanting to complain about the "Guide"’s inaccuracy.

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 in order to allow its editors and contributors 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 eliminated all of what Megadodo had once stood for, much to the disapproval of employee Ford Prefect.