User blog comment:Devilmanozzy/Books, LLC selling books of wikia wikis content?!/@comment-3134619-20111102181357

...They don't care as much about content as they do trying to make a buck, do they? Do they even realize that, unlike Wikipedia, the content of the wikis they're printing is /constantly/ subject to change because of the concentrated amount of users/fans who are /always/ editing? (Not that Wikipedia isn't always changing, but with wikis it's different...) Wikipedia might be big, but wikis /specialize/ and their users /know/ what pages are and aren't there, unlike the everyday civilian who goes to Wikipedia and finds what they need rather than thinks about what other articles /might/ be on the site. And then there are the spelling and grammar issues, some wikis have article comments (dear lord, are they /publishing/ article comments and talk pages?), the publishing of officially provided images that don't have a fair use rationale on the wikis, the fact that some of the wikis they're publishing are /fanfiction/ wikis (which could result in defamation suits)... The audience they're publishing for is /way/ too narrow for them to actually profit off of this, and the information of their 'books' will be out-of-date in mere seconds.

How do publishing companies like this get licensed? What a waste of money and trees.