-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Manske
AFAIK, we're going for a one-volume desktop edition first. In the early days of Nupedia (when the earth was still flat), someone (Jimbo or Larry) mused about one day printing an encyclopedia on "phone book paper". Shouldn't bee too far off the scale, especially if we get some educational/humanitarian organization to share the costs with.
Magnus
A paper edition of WP, in my opinion, would fail to sell. It loses all of WP's strengths, including: 1. WP is not paper 2. WP is constantly changing to be up to date 3. WP is accessible wirelessly via the Internet
As a venture capital journalist for the past seven years, I am skeptical. Traditional paper encyclopedia companies are going out of business.
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