On Feb 20, 2008 2:43 AM, Keith Old <keithold(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"The brave new world of instant enlightenment at
the touch of a computer key
has claimed a heavyweight victim. The 2008 edition of Quid, France's
favourite encyclopaedia, has been cancelled by its publisher for lack of
interest. The annual sales of the 2,000-page tome, which reached more than
400,000 in the mid-1990s, collapsed to just over 100,000 last year. "
If a one-volume book of the price mentioned does not cover the costs,
their problem is not wikipedia but extravagance. There have been
successful projects of similiar size before with a much lower
circulation.
Mathias