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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=gillesmaurice.deschryver@UGent.be
href="mailto:gillesmaurice.deschryver@UGent.be">Gilles-Maurice de Schryver</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=euralex@freelists.org
href="mailto:euralex@freelists.org">euralex@freelists.org</A> ; <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 05, 2012 5:00 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Lexicog] RE: End of print dictionaries at
Macmillan</DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Dear Friends and Colleagues,<O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This is Breaking News indeed!<O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>"Macmillan Dictionaries will no longer appear as physical
books. The <STRONG><SPAN>final copies are rolling off the presses at this very
moment</SPAN></STRONG>, and from next year, Macmillan Dictionary will be
available only online."<O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778">http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778</A><O></O></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>For the past decade or so, we have all been expecting an
announcement like this from one of the major dictionary publishers, and I am
happy to see that the honour goes to Macmillan, a key player in the monolingual
learner's dictionary market for English. Finally getting rid of the paper
constraints, and starting to exploit the true power of the digital medium -- and
to be able to do just that -- is nothing less than a revolution. I predict that
the other major publishers will now also stop talking about what <I>should</I>
be done, to simply <I>take the step</I> and do it.<O></O></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>More info in Michael Rundell’s post below.<O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Kind regards,<O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Gilles-Maurice de Schryver<O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>President of AFRILEX and author of "Lexicographers' Dreams in
the Electronic-Dictionary Age" (IJL 16.2, 2003, free access <A
href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/3">here</A>)<O></O></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"
lang=EN-US>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>
euralex-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:euralex-bounce@freelists.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Anne Dykstra<BR><B>Sent:</B> maandag 5 november 2012 10:11<BR><B>To:</B>
euralex@freelists.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [euralex] End of print dictionaries at
Macmillan<O></O></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Macmillan has announced that, from 2013, it will no longer be
publishing dictionaries in book form. It will focus instead on its expanding
range of digital resources. Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan
dictionary list, sees this as both inevitable and entirely positive. He regards
the printed book as a very limiting medium, and increasingly out of step with
the way people look for information in the second decade of the 21st century.
While printed reference books are out of date as soon they go on sale, an online
dictionary can be kept fully up to date. More than this, the digital medium
allows dictionary publishers to provide valuable additional resources, like
audio pronunciations, interactive games, and a thesaurus function. As well as
all these, Macmillan has a crowd-sourced dictionary (the 'Open Dictionary') fed
by users from all over the world, and an active blog with four or five new posts
every week on language-related issues. Michael says he was struck by one of the
findings reported at the recent Euralex Congress in Gilles-Maurice de Schryver's
plenary: his analysis of papers in the Euralex archive showed that the word
'look up' had declined in frequency and been overtaken by 'search'. This is the
world that dictionaries belong to now. For more details, see the post on this
subject in Macmillan's blog: <O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary">http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary</A>.<O></O></P>
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