Bertelsmann brings Wikipedia in book form
The Bertelsmann Lexikon Institute plans to publish a single-volume reference work based on Wikipedia. It is conceived as a «lexical yearbook» with a focus on current events in its topic articles.
The Bertelsmann Lexikon-Institut intends to publish a one-volume reference work based on Wikipedia. It is conceived as a "lexical yearbook" with a topical weighting of the subject articles and, unlike conventional encyclopaedias, will include those topics that were most frequently accessed in the online encyclopaedia in 2007 and 2008. The articles from the online edition will be summarized and shortened for this purpose, the publisher explained to the IT news site Golem.de.
As in the digital Wikipedia, all texts in the printed Wikipedia will be under a free license. One euro of the sales price of around 20 euros will go to the non-profit organization Wikimedia Deutschland. The encyclopedia will contain entries for 50,000 keywords. The digital version currently has over 739,000 entries. The book is due to be published in September 2008.
As in the digital Wikipedia, all texts in the printed Wikipedia will be under a free license. One euro of the sales price of around 20 euros will go to the non-profit organization Wikimedia Deutschland. The encyclopedia will contain entries for 50,000 keywords. The digital version currently has over 739,000 entries. The book is due to be published in September 2008.
