The problem remains that and individual subscription of $295 a year stinks, to say nothing of $995.00 for a printed copy. Basically, only institutions or major publishers would find a subscription worthwhile and those are higher yet.
Essentially it is a paradigm that does not deliver the goods.
Fred
"Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format"
Very unsurprising.
"Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so
third edition is unlikely"
Does anybody know the rough statistics on printed encyclopedias (which admittedly constitute a far smaller market than dictionaries)? In any case this movement away from print can only be promising news for our readership statistics.
(One therefore wonders the continuing usefulness of edition numbers.)
For ease of reference, I guess. In academia, when a vagueism crops up in texts being studied or researched, attempts to pin down the precise meaning intended are often supported by reference to a dictionary; to disguise the fact that nothing more complex than "reading the dictionary" is being undertaken, full references to the OED will be supplied.
There *is* something nice about edition numbers, though.
Even online, I suspect you would have edition numbers to identify major updates, with more frequent updates occurring between those "save points".
Aye, that may well be the compromise they arrive at.
AGK
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