From AP via CTV.ca:

In a move combining user-created online encyclopedias with the printed page, Germany's Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia.

The media company -- whose units include publisher Random House Inc. and music venture Sony BMG -- said Wednesday that it plans to publish "The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia" starting in September with the content made up of 50,000 of the most-searched terms on the German language edition of Wikipedia.

Beate Varnhorn, the head of publishing at Bertelsmann Encyclopedia Institute said the "condensed, one-volume print edition" would bring Wikipedia to a new audience.

She told The Associated Press that the sheer number of entries on the German Wikipedia -- at last count they numbered approximately 740,000 and would likely fill hundreds of printed volumes -- meant publishing all of it was not "a good project for the German book trade."

But an annual collection of the most-sought out terms made sense, she said. "A yearbook really can be a documentation of the zeitgeist."