Germans to create book in 12 hours

Jen Young noticed This One from over at CNN on a team of Forty German authors who are hoping to set a new world record by conceiving, writing and printing a book in 12 hours.

Stiftung Lesen, a foundation that promotes reading, will give the team of writers a topic at 7.45 a.m. on World Book Day, April 23. They aim to have the finished book on shop shelves in 10 German cities by the evening of that day.

Stiftung Lesen has a German Web site.