Media News - Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wikipedia to become a book in Germany
German publishing giant Bertelsmann plans to publish the world's first
reference book based on entries gathered from Wikipedia, the mammoth
online encyclopedia written by volunteers. Bertelsmann believes some
people who would rather leaf through a hands-on, printed book than surf
through the Internet. The company said on Wednesday it would publish a
print, German-language version of free online encyclopedia Wikipedia
based on the 50,000 most commonly searched terms on the Web site from
the past two years. The one-volume print version is due out in September
and will have on its 1,000 pages abbreviated passages from Wikipedia
online entries. Wikipedia Germany said they were approached by Random
House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, with the idea. Arne Klempert, a
spokesman for the German chapter, told DPA news agency that commercial
republication was allowed under the Wikipedia rules accepted by the
site's users. Those rules also applied to Random House, which would not
be allowed to claim copyright over the book, he said.
(Deutsche Welle)
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