[Lexicog] Re: [euralex] Re: [DSNA] RE: End of print dictionaries at Macmillan

[Adam Kilgarriff]

> What a sad day!

Not at all! A day of liberation for the straitjacket of print!

Adam

On 5 November 2012 14:48, <Lexicophile at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> 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.
>
> Dan Pratt
>
>
>  In a message dated 11/5/2012 6:00:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> gillesmaurice.deschryver at UGent.be writes:
>
>
>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> This is Breaking News indeed!
>
> "Macmillan Dictionaries will no longer appear as physical books. The final
> copies are rolling off the presses at this very moment, and from next year,
> Macmillan Dictionary will be available only online."
>
> http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778
>
> 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 should be
> done, to simply take the step and do it.
>
> More info in Michael Rundell's post below.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
>
> President of AFRILEX and author of "Lexicographers' Dreams in the
> Electronic-Dictionary Age" (IJL 16.2, 2003, free access here
> <http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/3> )
>
>
> From: euralex-bounce at freelists.org [mailto:euralex-bounce at freelists.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Anne Dykstra
> Sent: maandag 5 november 2012 10:11
> To: euralex at freelists.org
> Subject: [euralex] End of print dictionaries at Macmillan
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary.
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> 
>
>


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