This will not (as I read it) affect the creation of books, merely remove the option to get a hard copy of them printed. The core functions of the book creator will remain intact.
Mdann52 Sent from my iPod > On 11 Jul 2014, at 16:45, Luca Martinelli <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
