The printed version of Wikipedia to hit the markets soon
There is no doubt that Wikipedia has become one of the important web services of today. Currently, Wikipedia enables us to find all the information we need to know almost about anything, only on its online service. According to several reports(as mentiond by Softpedia), Wikipedia will be released in a printed version in Germany as soon as September and will be sold for 19.95 Euros. Wikipedia will be receiving as much as $1.59 per copy, the San Francisco Chronicle informs. The book, published in collaboration with Bertelsmann AG, will contain 992 pages and approximately 50,000 articles published on the website, the same source adds.
“This is groundbreaking. Getting a big publishing powerhouse like Bertelsmann behind this is a success in and of itself,” Kul Wadhwa, head of business development for the Wikimedia Foundation, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “A yearbook really can be a documentation of the zeitgeist,” Beate Varnhorn, head of publishing at Bertelsmann Encyclopedia Institute, told the Associated Press.
But wait, this is not it. Wikimedia is also strategizing to popularize Wikipedia towards the other sides of the market. “We’re doing a strategic analysis. There are possibly co-branding ideas, other ways to get our content out there. It could be with mobile operators, mobile platforms, other web sites. We obviously do not want to put ads on our site; at least for the time being, that’s off the table,” Kul Wadhwa added.
The printed version of Wikipedia will be released in German language as it is specially addressed to the German market. It will also be published in other languages, depending upon it’s success.The next version of the Encyclopedia may be released in English, though there is no official confirmation.
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