Wikipedia is the encyclopedia of information created for free by passionate people all over the world. It is constantly updated, edited and reviewed by millions of individuals. It is checked for facts and is a source for many students at school and University. There is a great app for the iPhone so you can get it anywhere.
Up until now this has been an online only community. But now Wikipedia has partnered with PediaPress to create Wikibooks.
You can choose your own content from the millions of articles on Wikipedia, then add them to your book, preview it and order a hard copy book to be delivered. These are individually customised books that you create for your own library on topics you are interested in. So you can have a book that contains articles on many different topics, not just a narrow one.
This is a brilliant idea – but also an encouragement for the writing and publishing community. Information is not just moving from print to digital, but also the other way. Books are still the future, but individually customised books that speak to people’s interests which by their very nature use print-on-demand technology to print one at a time.
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