On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:36 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/29/oed-third-edition-unlikely-print
"Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format"
"Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so third edition is unlikely"
(One therefore wonders the continuing usefulness of edition numbers.)
Print-only? Online-only, surely? Even online, I suspect you would have edition numbers to identify major updates, with more frequent updates occurring between those "save points".
Carcharoth