[WikiEN-l] OED goes print-only

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:36 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/29/oed-third-edition-unlikely-print
>
> "Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format"
>
> "Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so
> third edition is unlikely"
>
> (One therefore wonders the continuing usefulness of edition numbers.)

Print-only? Online-only, surely? Even online, I suspect you would have
edition numbers to identify major updates, with more frequent updates
occurring between those "save points".

Carcharoth