Wikitravel to publish monthly print editions on demand
Anyone who travels a lot is constantly hitting the situation when there’s a trip coming up to an unfamiliar city. Wikitravel has been a great site for getting information about new places and since it’s like the Wikipedia anyone can add their own information so that those interested can always get appropriate information about new destinations. Wikitravel has announced they will be offering print editions so you will be able to get a personalized travel guide professionally printed for just the place you are going to visit. The print guides will contain up-to-the-minute information so you will always get current information about the place of interest. Those who contribute information about the destination on Wikitravel will find their contributions in the print editions which is cool.
Wikitravel, the Webby Award-winning online travel guide, has over30,000 guides to destinations around the world. At Wikitravel Press, weselect the best ones, give them to our carefully selected local editorsto polish and fact-check, and then typeset them with our revolutionaryone-click Yucca engine. This lets us update the guides from top tobottom every single month. When you order online, a fresh copy isprinted just for you and shipped to your doorstop in less than a week.
(via Boing Boing)
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