On 26/11/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/26/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I assume you're going to go through and see what our coverage is *really* like ;-)
I had in mind something more like offloading cargo from a sinking ship...
Now, now! EB is a fantastic book, one of the great nonfiction works of Anglophone culture. Their current marketing operation may seem to be spending far too much of its time working on running down Wikipedia rather than e.g. selling a good encyclopedia, but that doesn't lessen the respect Britannica is due.
- d.