[WikiEN-l] Germany's Brockhaus Encyclopedia goes online

Meg Ireland megireland99 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 23:34:11 UTC 2008


Not so sure. If all encyclopaedias stopped being paper and went online
free, it could seriously bite into the number of people donating to
Wikipedia. It stands to reason more people may spend their internet
time looking at these encyclopaedias for information, than Wikipedia.

On 14/02/2008, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another one bites the dust!
>
> If traditional encyclopedia's are going to start placing all their content
> free to access online, then Wikipedia has already won (even if this might
> hurt the German version in web traffic).

Meg



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