[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 09:26:11 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:
> At 07:45 +0200 23/4/08, teun spaans wrote:
> >Congratulations to everyone involved in this project.
> >
> >

> >
> >I wish you happiness and health
> >
> >teun spaans
>
>
> It is a great experiment. I have a German WikiReader (of 75 pages or
> so) that I picked up in Frankfurt at the first Wikimania . It is
> about time somebody tried a "cut" of Wikipedia in print. The
> publisher will take the risk and the Foundation (or German Chapter?)
> will take the putative gain.


I wonder if I am the only one whose first thought is that someone
might buy this book and then spend the rest of their life finding
all the people who contributed, and ask them for an autograph.


Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]



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