The problem remains that and individual subscription of $295 a year stinks, to say nothing of $995.00 for a printed copy. Basically, only institutions or major publishers would find a subscription worthwhile and those are higher yet.
Essentially it is a paradigm that does not deliver the goods. Fred >> "Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format" > > Very unsurprising. > >> "Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so > third edition is unlikely" > > Does anybody know the rough statistics on printed encyclopedias (which > admittedly constitute a far smaller market than dictionaries)? In any > case this movement away from print can only be promising news for our > readership statistics. > >> (One therefore wonders the continuing usefulness of edition numbers.) > > For ease of reference, I guess. In academia, when a vagueism crops up > in texts being studied or researched, attempts to pin down the precise > meaning intended are often supported by reference to a dictionary; to > disguise the fact that nothing more complex than "reading the > dictionary" is being undertaken, full references to the OED will be > supplied. > > There *is* something nice about edition numbers, though. > >> Even online, I suspect you would have edition numbers to identify major >> updates, with more frequent updates occurring between those "save >> points". > > Aye, that may well be the compromise they arrive at. > > AGK > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
