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Wikipedia Goes to Print —in German

Posted Apr 24, 08 4:55 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Technology 

(Newser) – Wikipedia will soon hit bookshelves, the AP reports: German giant Bertelsmann AG is publishing a condensed print edition of the user-generated encyclopedia. The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia will contain 50,000 of the most-searched-for German entries this year—and it could be the first in an annual series. “A yearbook really can be a documentation of the zeitgeist,” said a publishing exec.

Included are French first lady Carla Bruni, Nintendo Wii and various German icons; entries will be fact-checked. Like its online counterpart, the 992-page tome, selling for $31.80, will be licensed for free copying and distribution. The goal is to “give people the information they are looking for,” said a promoter. “The sense of the Wikipedia spirit will go into this printed volume.”

Source Associated Press

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A general view of the German media giant Bertelsmann in Guetersloh, Germany, in this March 13, 2003, file photo.   (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, answers a question during an interview with the Associated Press in St. Petersburg, Fla. in this June 29, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Daniel Dennett's wikipedia article   ((c) david.orban)
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