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I think each format has its positives (advantages) and its negatives (shortcomings).<br>But in the end the practicalities and the interests of business win.<br><br>Hayim Sheynin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Adam Kilgarriff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com" target="_blank">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>> <font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">What a sad day! <br><br>Not at all! A day of liberation for the straitjacket of print!<br></font></font><br>Adam<br><br></p><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2012 14:48, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lexicophile@aol.com" target="_blank">Lexicophile@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>What a sad day! When looking up anything in a print dictionary, you
generally stumble across all sorts of delightful material you never would have
known to look for. With an electronic dictionary, generally speaking, what
you search is what you get, and nothing beyond.</div>
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<div>In a message dated 11/5/2012 6:00:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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<p></p><div>Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br><br>This is Breaking News
indeed!<br><br>"Macmillan Dictionaries will no longer appear as physical
books. The final<br>copies are rolling off the presses at this very moment,
and from next year,<br>Macmillan Dictionary will be available only
online."<br><br><a title="http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778" href="http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778" target="_blank">http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778</a><br>
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the past decade or so, we have all been expecting an announcement like<br>this
from one of the major dictionary publishers, and I am happy to see that<br>the
honour goes to Macmillan, a key player in the monolingual
learner's<br>dictionary market for English. Finally getting rid of the paper
constraints,<br>and starting to exploit the true power of the digital medium
-- and to be<br>able to do just that -- is nothing less than a revolution. I
predict that<br>the other major publishers will now also stop talking about
what should be<br>done, to simply take the step and do it.<br><br>More info in
Michael Rundell's post below.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Gilles-Maurice de
Schryver<br><br>President of AFRILEX and author of "Lexicographers' Dreams in
the<br>Electronic-Dictionary Age" (IJL 16.2, 2003, free access here<br></div><<a title="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/3" href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/3" target="_blank">http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/3</a>>
)<div><div><br><br>From: <a title="mailto:euralex-bounce@freelists.org" href="mailto:euralex-bounce%40freelists.org" target="_blank">euralex-bounce@freelists.org</a>
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On<br>Behalf Of Anne Dykstra<br>Sent: maandag 5 november 2012 10:11<br>To: <a title="mailto:euralex@freelists.org" href="mailto:euralex%40freelists.org" target="_blank">euralex@freelists.org</a><br>Subject:
[euralex] End of print dictionaries at Macmillan<br><br>Macmillan has
announced that, from 2013, it will no longer be publishing<br>dictionaries in
book form. It will focus instead on its expanding range of<br>digital
resources. Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan<br>dictionary
list, sees this as both inevitable and entirely positive. He<br>regards the
printed book as a very limiting medium, and increasingly out of<br>step with
the way people look for information in the second decade of the<br>21st
century. While printed reference books are out of date as soon they go<br>on
sale, an online dictionary can be kept fully up to date. More than
this,<br>the digital medium allows dictionary publishers to provide
valuable<br>additional resources, like audio pronunciations, interactive
games, and a<br>thesaurus function. As well as all these, Macmillan has a
crowd-sourced<br>dictionary (the 'Open Dictionary') fed by users from all over
the world, and<br>an active blog with four or five new posts every week on
language-related<br>issues. Michael says he was struck by one of the findings
reported at the<br>recent Euralex Congress in Gilles-Maurice de Schryver's
plenary: his<br>analysis of papers in the Euralex archive showed that the word
'look up' had<br>declined in frequency and been overtaken by 'search'. This is
the world that<br>dictionaries belong to now. For more details, see the post
on this subject<br>in Macmillan's blog: <br><br><a title="http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary." href="http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary." target="_blank">http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary.</a><br>
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