PediaPress Offers Customized Books with Wikipedia Articles

If would like to collect your favourite Wikipedia articles and store them for future reference in a printed form like a book, PediaPress lets you do just that. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has a huge collection of articles about every topic possible.

PediaPress is a service that enables you to compile and order a book with contents you pick from Wikipedia articles. The goal of PediaPress is to make this knowledge available in a printed form and promote the offline usage of Wikipedia articles.

Search and add Wikipedia articles you want in your personal book. Enter a book title and an editor name. Preview your book in PDF format. Order your book, pay with your credit card and the book is printed immediately and usually shipped on the same day.

How can they use Wikipedia content like this? They say all Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. GNU Free Documentation Licence formulates the conditions under which Wikipedia articles may be reproduced.

“your book will be printed by InstaBook Network with the content you requested. It will be a unique volume, manufactured on the spot and shipped immediately from the nearest InstaBook Digital Bookstore Center to you. Your book will be an original (not a copy); it will be printed on first class white paper 70 gms, and it will be bound with a 12p glossy cover stock (250 gms).”