PediaPress brings wikis to print. The service works with wikis that have deployed a special extension. Such wikis offer users to build individual collections of articles and order them as printed books with PediaPress. Books are printed on demand. Each produced book is unique and customized just for you. This screencast shows how one can easily create unique printed books with individual selections of Wikipedia content.

The tool can be started here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator

To create a book Go to your favorite wiki and look for a “Create a book” box in the navigation sidebar, usually on the left side of the page. Any wiki with this link supports PediaPress. Click on the “Books help” link to get more information about the process.

The price of books depends on the number of pages, starting from US$ 8.90 for books up to 100 pages. 10% of the gross sales price goes to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Books are perfect bound, printed in the dimensions 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch (216 mm x 140 mm) and contain a table of contents, your chapters and articles, licensing information next to an index.

However, the only negative thing is you can not save the compiled collection as a file in your computer.

More information on printed books can be found in the FAQ:
http://pediapress.com/faq/

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