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

Wed Apr 23 21:42:02 UTC 2008

At 12:04 +0100 23/4/08, Andrew Gray wrote:
>2008/4/23 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>>  On 23/04/2008, Mary Murrell <mary_murrell at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > 1. Free as in $19.95-a-pop beer, yeah.
>>
>>  Not bad for a 1000-page lump of dead tree, I'd say.
>
>Yeah. 20 EUR is, what, fifteen quid? That's pretty cheap for a
>hardbound general reference work, especially one run off with decent
>print standards (ie, colour throughout)
>
>Britannica Concise is £50 for 2k pp.; DK's illustrated childrens'
>encyclopedia is £30 for 800pp; some random A-Z Reference Book is £25
>for 1400pp; Hutchinson Encyclopedia is £40 for 1000pp.; Penguin
>Concise Encyclopedia is £19 for 1000pp (but is a rather cheap-looking
>paperback, probably not much in the way of colour)
>
>Assuming the German one-volume quick-reference market is about the
>same as ours, it's priced well.
>
>--
>- Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
>_______

And consider these two copyright expired texts:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hung-Lou-Meng-Dream-Chamber/dp/1406512605/r

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hung-Meng-Dream-Chamber-Book/dp/1406512613/

A snip at 36 quid for two volumes?

The text is freely available at Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9603

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9604

or

http://tinyurl.com/659o9r

Gordo

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