-----Original Message----- From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:45 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0
Keith Old wrote:
New features enabling the inclusion of this user-generated content
will be
rolled out on the encyclopedia's website over the next 24 hours, * Britannica's* president, Jorge Cauz, said in an interview today."
(More in
story)
<What's their business plan? Vetting the information to the standards they profess is going to take a considerable staff to keep up with the work that could in theory come their way.
What will be their revenue source to sustain all this? There's a limited market for multi-volume dead-tree encyclopædias, and depending on advertising revenues in the middle of a global financial is not very secure. Maybe a sugar-daddy with bottomless pockets and insatiable vanity?
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That this is not a dead-tree encyclopedia is exactly the point. This is on their website. They do not plan to incorporate this material into their print version.
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