[Web4lib] German Wikipedia to be published in book form?

B.G. Sloan bgsloan2 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 22 15:39:05 EDT 2008


Kind of ironic:

"Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by volunteers, is to be published in Germany as a book for people who prefer turning pages to clicking links, publishing multinational Random House said Tuesday. Editors will distil 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September. When begun, Wikipedia was perceived as making books redundant, with no future for printed encyclopaedias."

http://tinyurl.com/6bzfxu

Bernie Sloan


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