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[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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