Thursday 16 July 2009

WikiPedia Printed

The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Not sure if anyone is willing to go that far but a student in the UK has actually converted 0.01% of the Wikipedia encyclopedia into a printed book.This Wikipedia book has some 5,000 pages and it’s a compilation of 400+ featured articles all picked from Wikipedia. The book is huge - about 1ft 7in. The guy who came up with this idea (Rob Matthews) apparently plans to sell this book!

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I was thinking that the Wikipedia foundation could be making money by printing and selling their encyclopedia, but then you revealed the immense size of Wikipedia. It's impossible. It would just cost too much for printing. About all they could do would be to sell a dedicated ebook reader! But who would buy it, because you could get an ebook reader that could read Wikipedia and other books.
Posted: 29 Aug 2009 5:26:00 PM by Tommy
Or itd be up for torrent in 2 days and be able to be downloaded for free in bolut 10minutes and on an ipod in seocnds...
Posted: 14 Dec 2009 8:24:00 PM by Internet Troll...

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