Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:52:09 +1100, you wrote:
Britannica must be struggling. I recently got a letter offering me a free Britannica CD-ROM (basic edition) if I subscribed. I don't think that is a good sign.
I thought that was a pretty old offer? I seem to recall something similar at least five years back. Could be wrong, of course.
I think these days anybody selling access to information is struggling. Too much of it is free.
Yes, in many ways. And we want even more of it to be free. At the same time others have gambled with building proprietary databases, and are looking desparate to achieve cost recovery. By and large the economics of the internet includes a lot of very serious unanswered questions.
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