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Have you seen http://pediapress.com/ http://pediapress.com/? It seems to do exactly that, although you need to compile the book yourself.
by allbutlost 15y ago
Have you seen http://pediapress.com/ http://pediapress.com/? It seems to do exactly that, although you need to compile the book yourself.
- leak 15y agoYeh, something similar except beautiful, not just printing the content. Beautiful cover, font, design, maybe even vintage looking. It might not be "scalable" tho but I think people would dig it and willing to pay $100 for something like that. I would buy a vintage looking book about cars.
- _delirium 15y agoYeah, I'd be interested in well-edited individual books, by someone knowledgeable in the subject who took care with both the physical presentation, and ideally some editing of the content, at least to make the articles flow coherently and not have too much redundancy between chapters (and make sure total crap sections didn't slip in). In some ways that's the whole point of it being open-content, that you can reuse/repackage it in various ways, but there hasn't been a lot of creative third-party reuse yet.
- ErrantX 15y agoI think part of the problem is that WP is still mostly incomplete (which is a horrifying thought :D). By which I mean; if you pick a topic to turn into a book your likely to have articles of a wide range of quality (from featured status, the top, to stub, the bare minimum). Couple that with potentially disparate styles of writing and it can become difficult to stitch several articles into a book form. Not that people don't do it; the volunteer email support service regularly gets people complaining about the $50 "text book" they bought of Amazon simply being Wikipedia articles. It's always been in the back of my mind to try and do something like it though; perhaps an "obscure topics" book with some of the more interesting articles put into it.