[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

Wed Apr 23 08:17:49 UTC 2008

I think this is a very important step for Wikipedia to be taken
seriously by a more academic public, and maybe also for people who
aren't that tech-savy (i'm especially talking about the elderly). I
would love to give this to my grandmother and be able to say that i
contributed to it (even though i'm not that active on de.wikipedia :).

Are there any pictures online somewhere on how it will look like?

-- Hay / Husky

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> I have no experience with the encyclopaedias, but for academic press 5 to
>  10 percent royalty is standard. The rest goes to the publishing house and
>  covers all the publication and prepublication (editiung, typesetting,
>  publicity) costs.
>
>  Cheers
>  Yaroslav
>
>
>
>  >
>  > In a message dated 4/22/2008 7:29:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>  > mary_murrell at yahoo.com writes:
>  >
>  > 4. Only  one dollar to Wikimedia per copy? That's a measly 5% royalty. Who
>  > gets the  rest?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > While no one has commented on the initial print run, there are certainly
>  > initial production costs that have to be covered, and these can be steep
>  > (copyediting, fact checking, plates, separations, printing, etc.). For a
>  > first run
>  > book which they can ostensibly grab for free, this is actually pretty
>  > generous.
>  >
>  > Danny
>  >
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