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
>
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> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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