From now everyone can consult Wikipedia in everywhere and any time without an internet connection . This is possible thanks to Wikireader, a small device which stores 3 million of Wikipedia articles.
Wikireader was created by Openmoko, a Taiwan company. This device allows the user read the articles in a small monochrome screen.
Although Wikipedia offers its content for free, this device will cost $99 dollars and all the articles are in English language. Their users will update its content for $29 dollars by year.
This device is very usefull but what about the users who wrote the content for free?, how will they benefit with this?, who’s the winner of this? Obviously isn’t the users or the knowledge because this device is very expensive. Wikipedia has to explain why allows the marketing of free content.
