Listening to NPR this morning, I heard this on one of their 'bottom of the hour' light pieces:
Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, said Sunday that it's uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary's next edition will be printed in book form. The publisher said many people prefer to look up words using its online product.Here's the link from the UK's Telegraph newspaper, if you'd like to see the take from across the pond.
(But wait, there's more! Here's an example of the usefulness of a news outlet having good, updated web pages and blogs. It turns out that reports on the death of the print edition may have been premature, and this NPR news blog was quick to correct its own report.)
Happy Monday! Carrie.
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I actually heard this on the news this morning and thought about our class discussion on Saturday. They said it will only be printed if there are enough requests. I wonder how many is "enough".
"Enough" to make a profit, I guess!
It is interesting how fast everyone was willing to "kill" the print -- when according to the later comment by OED -- "It's likely to be more than a decade before the full edition is published and a decision on format will be taken at that point. Lexicographers are currently preparing the third edition of the OED, which is 28 per cent complete."
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