Tabloid Bild wants to impart knowledge 

The German tabloid Bild, together with the Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut and Club Bertelsmann, has launched a book project called the Knowledge Library. The first volume of the twelve-part series was published on Monday and is dedicated to the topic of "Earth and Space". The series is edited by the journalist and theater studies professor Hellmuth Karasek and Ulf Merbold, astronaut and physicist. 288 pages of each volume of the Picture Knowledge Library deals with one area of knowledge in 1000 questions and answers and costs 9.95 euros. A new volume is published every week. The complete encyclopedia will be available on December 4, 2006. Club Bertelsmann will offer the volumes in its 300 stores and also use the Internet and catalog distribution channels.
According to Kai Diekmann, editor-in-chief of Bild, his newspaper offers more than eleven million people "a wealth of information and knowledge" every day. This claim is to be extended with the knowledge library.