On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote: > Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy > PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is > associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If Wikimedia did > this and brought the service in-house, assuming the LaTeX export is > released as open source, it would probably continue to contract with > Lightning Source or some other company to do the actual printing (our > competencies are much more on computer and web technology than print > publication). Assuming that all of this was possible - and I have no > idea what would be a reasonable price for PediaPress, whether Brainbot > would sell, or whether that would be an appropriate use of funds in the > context of our mission and strategy - would people be okay with the > current placement of the service, including continuing to charge people > who order printed books? > Well, you first need to check if it would be/is generating enough revenue that justifies the investment. and see the usage of the collection extension and how many books they already printed etc. I don't know what is wrong with charging money to print the books, if someone needs a hardcopy of an article collection, then WMF should be the one providing it, if feasible.
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