Now here’s an interesting idea that the publishing industry should have come up with ages ago … software company PediaPress is working with Wikipedia and Lightning Source print-on-demand to allow users to select content of interest and have this typeset and printed on demand. What do you get? A customised encyclopedia. Genius!
Education publishers have been customising ‘slice and dice’ for a while, in limited, bespoke, expensive print runs but this is the first mass market version I’ve seen.
See Alison Flood's piece in The Guardian here.
