[WikiEN-l] "Fatally Flawed" -- Internal Britannica Review Tackles Nature Methods

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:52:09 +1100, you wrote:
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>>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.
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>I thought that was a pretty old offer?  I seem to recall something
>similar at least five years back.  Could be wrong, of course.
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>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.

Ec