7,471-Volume of Printed Wikipedia for Purchase

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Artist and programmer Michael Mandiberg has created a tangible, printed version of the entire Wikipedia database and has uploaded them to a print-on-demand service. This database computes to 7,471 volumes of Wikipedia content, each volume 700 pages long, and 5,244,111 pages in total. Each volume costs $80, and the entire collection costs $500,000.
 

Sawers, Paul. "You Can Soon Buy a 7,471-volume Printed Version of Wikipedia For $500,000." VentureBeat. N.p., 17 June 2015. Web. 18 June 2015. .