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

[Hayim Sheynin]

I think each format has its positives (advantages) and its negatives
(shortcomings).
But in the end the practicalities and the interests of business win.

Hayim Sheynin

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>wrote:

> **
>
>
> > 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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