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

Wed Apr 23 17:23:54 UTC 2008

Royalty rates run across the board but I can tell you that we did push 
Bertelsmann because money that goes back to fund the "mission" is a good 
thing. We have to look at the total package so getting a publishing 
giant such as Bertelsmann behind this and agreeing to GFDL could already 
be considered a win.

--Kul

Husky wrote:
> 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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