Another one bites the dust!
If traditional encyclopedia's are going to start placing all their content free to access online, then Wikipedia has already won (even if this might hurt the German version in web traffic).
On Feb 13, 2008 1:34 PM, Relata Refero refero.relata@gmail.com wrote:
Are thee any studies on the comparative accuracy of Brockhaus and de:WP? I ask because I always had the sense that de:WP had a lower tolerance for content trolls than we have.
I wonder how the EB's doing.
RR
On Feb 14, 2008 2:09 AM, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day folks,
Deutsche Welle reports that Germany's Brockhaus encyclopedia will go online and be supported by advertising.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3125497,00.html
The German encyclopedia publisher Brockhaus said it would place its reference works on the Internet to offset falling revenues. Unlike
popular
reference work Wikipedia, it will be ad-sponsored and professionally edited.
It's the paper death of a classic. The German publisher Brockhaus has
been
printing its encyclopedias for nearly 200 years, and anyone who's had
the
money has boasted a collection of the handsome works on their
bookshelves
for all the world to admire.
But the Internet has been a thorn in Brockhaus' side years now, forcing the company to reevaluate its strategy. The German version of the democratic digital reference work Wikipedia has been seen as cutting into
Brockhaus'
profits.
"Though official figures are not yet out for 2007, we can expect losses
of
around several million euros," a Brockhaus spokesperson said earlier
this
week.
(more in link)
Regards
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