The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that the German company PediaPress now prints selections from Wikipedia on demand. Wikipedia has set up a web page to customize each book. A 100-page book costs $8.90 and takes 2-15 business days to ship. From the article:
As like-minded books-on-demand projects such as the Espresso Book Machine have shown, there’s at least some kind of a market for readers of made-to-order books, so it’s not inconceivable that some Wikipedia visitors will order special volumes as gifts or buy texts that they can mark up with marginalia. Wikipedia says the press is doing brisk business: It sold more than 1,000 German-language books in its first month of operations.
