Okay, let’s sit back and ponder this development for a bit.
From The Guardian: “Das Wikipedia- online resource goes into print”
“Due to hit the shelves in September, a published encyclopedia of German Wikipedia entries, the first of its kind, will list in a single volume the 50,000 most commonly searched terms on the German Wikipedia website over the past two years.”
Peddling backwards? Or a bizarre and unexpected reflection on my recent musings about geographical idiosyncracies?
There’s more: Pediapress.com
Using their software, you pick specific topics/articles from Wikipedia (or any compatible wiki) to create a printed book:
“PediaPress offers to print your collection of articles as a perfect bound book. Typesetting is automated and done by specialized software.”
So much for the paperless digital world, saving trees, and all that. Does this signal the ultimate triumph of the medium of the “perfect bound book”?
