[WikiEN-l] Forthcoming book about Wikipedia, "How Wikipedia Works" -- feedback wanted

[Andrew Gray]

On 04/12/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > * The book will be licensed under the GFDL and an online version will
> > be available...
> > [...]
> > * A portion of the authors' proceeds will be donated to the Wikimedia
> > Foundation.
>
> Of course, anyone aware of both of these facts will probably be smart enough to:
> 1. Download the book, if they want to.
> 2. Send money directly to the foundation (cutting out the publisher
> and any other intermediaries), if they want to.
> So the proceeds might be on the meager side, though hopefully enough
> to cover production expenses... (?)

Theose likely to think of doing that, and interested, are geeks.
Geeks, in my long experience, like being snowed under with books. I'm
not sure this is a group of potential customers one needs to worry
about :-)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk