On 26/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/26/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I assume you're going to go through and see
what our coverage is
> *really* like ;-)
I had in mind something more like offloading cargo
from a sinking ship...
Now, now! EB is a fantastic book, one of the great nonfiction works of
Anglophone culture. Their current marketing operation may seem to be
spending far too much of its time working on running down Wikipedia
rather than e.g. selling a good encyclopedia, but that doesn't lessen
the respect Britannica is due.
- d.