Hi Friends,
You may have seen the press release of canonical announcing support for 10 Indian languages
I am glad to report the release of Ubuntu User Guide(e-book) in Telugu with content from Telugu wikibooks.
Content from wikibooks was imported using Open document format import feature of print/export feature and the layout was done using Libreoffice 3.3.
Having the source content in Wikibooks makes the content searchable on internet and the e-book serves to access the content in a book form.. You can see my blog post in Telugu with links to e-book and screenshots.
http://teluginux.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html
Telugu wikibook root page: http://tinyurl.com/3ff2wf8
I feel the popularity of Wikipedia in local languages will be closely to tied to use of computer in native language. I would like to see efforts from other language Wikipedians and FOSS enthusiasts and would be interested in collaborative efforts in this direction.
Cheers
Arjun