On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mike Linksvayer ml@creativecommons.orgwrote:
p.s. Personally, discussions of "offline" here and everywhere (say, accessibility of educational materials) are absurdly myopic. Consideration of offline use is about as relevant now as consideration of horse stables in urban planning 100 years ago.
Substitute "print" for "offline" and I think the market is fairly limited (maybe I'm wrong, though, does anyone from the German Wikimedia know how many copies of "The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia" have sold?). But there are plenty of uses for an "offline" encyclopedia - CD/DVD and iPod Touch come to mind immediately.
I can't say I understand your horse stable planning analogy, but the Wikipedia we write today will surely be useless 100 years from now except for archaeological-type purposes, just like the Britannica from 100 years ago is today.