A recent news report from Germany confirms an idea I’d been toying with for a couple of years (apparently along with a few other people) — that printing online content can be a good business. To quote from the Associated Press story:
Germany’s Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia.
Well, there you have it — the print/online boundary proves semi-permeable in the opposite direction!
Apr 6, 2010 at 6:05 am
[...] 2008, I wrote about how Bertelsmann AG was planning to publish annual yearbooks derived from Wikipedia. Now, another German publishing company is exploiting the contents of Wikipedia for commercial [...]