Dear Erik, so the Book Creator will still be active, maybe under another name, maybe with another engine, but still active?
Thanks for the answer in advance. L. 2014-07-11 0:25 GMT+02:00 Erik Moeller <[email protected]>: > 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. 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 > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
