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

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2008/4/23 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>   
>> On 23/04/2008, Mary Murrell wrote:
>>     
>>> 1. Free as in $19.95-a-pop beer, yeah.
>>>       
>> Not bad for a 1000-page lump of dead tree, I'd say.
>>     
> Yeah. 20 EUR is, what, fifteen quid? That's pretty cheap for a
> hardbound general reference work, especially one run off with decent
> print standards (ie, colour throughout)
>
> Britannica Concise is £50 for 2k pp.; DK's illustrated childrens'
> encyclopedia is £30 for 800pp; some random A-Z Reference Book is £25
> for 1400pp; Hutchinson Encyclopedia is £40 for 1000pp.; Penguin
> Concise Encyclopedia is £19 for 1000pp (but is a rather cheap-looking
> paperback, probably not much in the way of colour)
>
> Assuming the German one-volume quick-reference market is about the
> same as ours, it's priced well.
>
>   
Indeed, anyone who would put an excessive price on an open source work 
runs the risk that anyone could legally reprint the same work, and 
undercut the overpriced edition.

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