Monday, February 23, 2009

Wiki Books on Demand

PediaBooks are now offering a service whereby Wiki pages (could be WikiPedia) can be gathered together and printed (POD) as a book.

The book is printed POD by Lightning Source. Interesting that the book does not have an ISBN, because, I suppose this is a one-off unique item. Having said that, though, they do have a catalog of shared books, so you are likely to buy something that others have bought too.

furthermore...

The revenue seems to be going towards the WikiPedia Foundation. The title above is priced today at €30 and I might risk it but ... the preview gives you 22 pages, but I cannot find anywhere how many pages I would really get for that price. The content page looks comprehensive. The author is 'Wikipedians'.

I got to know about this through a talk by Suzanne Wilson-Higgings from Lightning Source.