2008/12/25 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: > Brockhaus never really tried and Britannica is pretty half hearted to > the point there not even really the go to people when the media want > an anti-wikipedia comment any more.
Yes, I've noticed it getting ad-hoc. > No academic publishing has a > highly profitable business model and one they will fight much harder > to defend than anyone we've previously run up against. At this point the prudent move for us is to do nothing and continue to exist. Which has actually worked out surprisingly well for us so far. > However we > cannot meaningfully disrupt their business model (We do not have the > strength in the academic world to push open access journals > significantly and the wider public is irrelevant to them). The open access journals are termiting them nicely for us. They'll only die on the scale of Microsoft under the onslaught of Linux, or non-free-content educational materials in general under the onslaught of Wikipedia, i.e. not any time soon, but soon enough for us. All we need to do is continue to exist. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
