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

[David Gerard]

On 23/04/2008, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  I guess for Bertelsmann and for Wikipedia such a book would be ok, but
> >  a reader would be more served with one volume out of a series of
> >  books, each of them containing something like 1000 or 2000 complete
> >  Wikipedia articles on some broad subject.

> This is not an XOR decision. Anyone can come up with a practical
> solution how to fill content originating in Wikipedia into dead trees.
> And I would like to hear them all :)


The SOS Children DVD takes a few thousand en:wp articles at greater
length. The press release estimated it as equivalent to 15 volumes.


- d.