[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

[James Heilman]

Yes agree with David that this is an very positive development and am glad
a company is turning Wikipedia into textbooks. I am myself in the process
of writing one as a compilation of 80 articles but do not mind someone
beating me to it.

They seem open to a discussion around attribution. At the least Wikipedia
should be listed within the kindle edition. It is faltering that when they
say there books are based on "highest-quality open-access content" they
more or less mean they are based on Wikipedia. I will continue a discussion
with them.

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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com