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Samuel Klein | 13 Mar 2012 23:49
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Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2010's 32-volume set will be its last.  (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!)  Future versions will be digital only.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-publication

Britannica president Jorge Cauz notes that their revenue from the
online encyclopedia was already 15x that of the print version -- 15%
of their total, compared to 1%.  Most of their revenue for years has
come from other targeted educational materials.  As he says in the
Guardian,

"Today our digital database is much larger than what we can fit in the
print set. And it is up to date because we can revise it within
minutes anytime we need to, and we do it many times each day."

SJ.
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emijrp | 14 Mar 2012 00:04
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012/3/13 Samuel Klein <meta.sj <at> gmail.com>

> "Today our digital database is much larger than what we can fit in the
> print set. And it is up to date because we can revise it within
> minutes anytime we need to, and we do it many times each day."
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>
Wow, they update the encyclopedia many times each day.
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Yury Tarasievich | 14 Mar 2012 06:32
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

This irony is somewhat misplaced as I understand 
it's experts that update Britannica many times 
each day, not "just anybody".

On 03/14/2012 01:04 AM, emijrp wrote:
> 2012/3/13 Samuel Klein<meta.sj <at> gmail.com>
>> "Today our digital database is much larger than what we can fit in the
>> print set. And it is up to date because we can revise it within
>> minutes anytime we need to, and we do it many times each day."
> Wow, they update the encyclopedia many times each day.
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Gerard Meijssen | 21 Mar 2012 17:32
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Re: Language policy agreement in the Norwegian Wikipedia community

Hoi,
There is a process for the start of new projects and for the start of new
language versions. This is a formal process and it does not involve the
voting of people. What it does involve is the existence of languages
recognised in the ISO-639-3. As such Norwegian, or the no /nor code is
considered a macro-language and does not qualify for a new project.

It is explicitly understood that by no.wikipedia.org we expect it to be
Bokmal.
Thanks,
     GerardM

http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:No

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