PRESS RELEASE 

Mainz, November 11th, 2010 

Wikipedia Books Now in Hardcover and Color 

High-quality and customized books from world's biggest online encyclopedia enjoy great popularity 

Wikipedia books are taking another step forward. Each user of the world's biggest online encyclopedia can now create a customized book from over 3 million articles and order a printed version - now also with hardcover and in color. Wikipedia's official partner PediaPress fulfills with these new features the desire of numerous customers for high-quality and durable editions of their books. In the printable version readers now benefit from the informative texts as well as from the variety of brilliant photos, color charts and maps from Wikipedia. Beyond that, every book sold helps the free online encyclopedia to stay free, as part of the revenue goes to the Wikimedia Foundation. 

Increase in demand
Our customers increasingly asked for hardcovers and the possibility of printing the book content in color, so as to better render Wikipedia articles in PediaPress books. For customers who collect a whole series of books or compile their very own reference books, hardcover books look just great on their bookshelf. Our customers also like to give customized PediaPress books as a personal gift to family and friends - a very personal Christmas present! - and the high quality binding makes those presents even more valuable. 

As people often compile books where the colored presentation of the pictures and graphics included is essential, color print answers a long-wanted need. Take "The Caribbean Beaches from above" or "The spectrum of light" for example, such books yield their best results with color inside. This is why PediaPress now offers the option to print the books in color, each and every page of a paperback or hardcover can now display a colorful content. The price of a book is bound to the number of pages and starts for a black and white paperback at US$8,90. Colored paperbacks start at US$13, black and white hardcovers at US$ 15 and colored hardcovers are up for the taking from US$ 20. 

How does it work?
A "Create a book" link in the print/export section of Wikipedia's left navigation sidebar leads the users to the book creator. They are browsing the site as usual -- by clicking the "Add this page" link they can fill the book with articles as they go. In the end, they can arrange the order of their articles. To add the final touch, the users can choose a cover photo and give the book its title and an editor's name and choose between paperback or hardcover and color or black and white. 

Who provides the service?
PediaPress is the partner of Wikipedia for bringing wikis to print. The web-to-print service enables users to create custom books based on their individual content selection from the free encyclopedia. Books can be created on the Wikipedia website with articles in 272 languages and are delivered to customers in more than 100 countries. The PediaPress web-to-print service works with most of the more than 100.000 wikis worldwide, which are frequently used to collaboratively create and share content on the web and within organizations. The company established a long term partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation which operates several wiki-projects, including Wikipedia with its more than 350 million unique users per month. PediaPress was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of brainbot technologies AG and is located in Mainz, Germany. 

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