Ever wanted to print the user-generated content from Wiki websites and turn them into your own custom magazines? HP and the founder of Wikipedia have partnered up to enable users to print Wiki content with HP’s MagCloud publishing service, which is basically like CafePress for magazines. When you join Wikia (the umbrella website for Wiki communities), you get access to a free widget that lets you “select the articles you like, pick a cover, and place your order on MagCloud.”
Publishing and printing web content isn’t exactly a novel concept. Tabbloid turns RSS feeds of blogs into neat, printable content in your email inbox, and Blog2Print turns blogs into professional-looking books. What’s interesting about the HP-Wikia agreement is the exponential growth of Wikia over the past several years. Will the millions of leisurely researchers and writers who visit the site simply bounce after a quick read, link to an article online in a blog, or actually pay to print out the content? Call it desperation or foresight, but the recent agreement shows that HP is doing whatever it can to create opportunities to print in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
(Story via Reuters; Photo via Morguefile)
