I'm relaying the following message, which was posted at [[Wikipedia:WikiReader]]. -- Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Wikipedia Users,
I am the Senior Sales Manager of a company called myphotobook GmbH. Recently, I have been thinking a lot about how myphotobook could help support Jimmy Wales vision. His idea is to make the knowledge on Wikipedia available for people in Africa who cannot access the Internet or cannot pay for it. It goes without saying that this help should be free.
Kurt Jansson, from WikiMedia Germany, approves my project and has advised me to discuss it with you here so as to get your feedback.
I would like to propose printing and binding the Encyclopedia into a real book, which would be sold in the First World. For every copy sold, a free copy will be printed and delivered in Africa. This would be a great way to support the Third World.
Since we print every copy on demand (from one up to as many as required), it would not cost the Wikipedia Foundation anything, contrary to normal printing solutions.
A few questions are yet to be answered, such as how the whole work should be published or whether all entries should be included or not.
I would really appreciate it if you could send me your suggestions. Those of you who wish to contact me directly can send an email to:
wikipedia@myphotobook.de
Many thanks in advance!
Friendly regards,
Mike Zimmermann
myphotobook GmbH
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On 1/28/06, Matt R matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I'm relaying the following message, which was posted at [[Wikipedia:WikiReader]]. -- Matt
Thanks for relaying this here. The suggestion sounds great, but again we run into the problem of who should be taking legal liability for the content once it's moved into the riskier world of print? I've emailed Mike Zimmermann to ask if his company had taken this into consideration.
Angela.