Wikipedia: the Book

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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, will be appearing in German stores in September in an unusual format: as a book.

German publishing giant Bertelsmann AG said Wednesday it planned to publish a one-volume reference book containing the best of the Germany version of the popular online encyclopedia.

The 993-page book will contain approximately 50,000 definitions and 1,000 illustrations and will be priced at about 20 euros ($32.18 Cdn), according to the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the ncyclopedia.

It's encyclopedia as photography: take a snapshot of a moment in time, and hope for the best.

p.s. it occurs to me that this may be nothing more than a savvy PR move, or an art installation. It's so hard to tell them apart these days.