Thank you for the update, and thanks to Pediapress for the collaboration! I always liked to have the option, but indeed never was tempted enough to actually order something.
Good to learn that the pdf function remains, that's great too! Lodewijk 2014-07-11 0:38 GMT+02:00 Thomas Gries <m...@tgries.de>: > Am 11.07.2014 00:25, schrieb Erik Moeller: > > Since 2008, we've offered a small feature to download printed books >> from Wikipedia article. This is done in partnership with a company >> called PediaPress. >> >> They've sold about 15K books over that time period, not enough to >> break even, and the support/maintenance burden for the service is no >> longer worth it for them. >> >> We'll disable this feature in coming weeks. >> > It's a pity, as I liked that service/very much/, it was quick, reliable, > perfect quality, not too expensive. > The only feature what I missed was the inability to add further PDF pages. > > We'd only continue to >> offer it if there's 1) strong community interest in maintaining it, >> and 2) a partner who steps up to provide the service. >> >> We'll continue to provide PDF downloads (soon with a new rendering >> engine). >> >> Thanks, >> Erik >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
