> What a sad day! Not at all! A day of liberation for the straitjacket of print! Adam On 5 November 2012 14:48, <Lexicophile@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ** > What a sad day! When looking up anything in a print dictionary, you > generally stumble across all sorts of delightful material you never would > have known to look for. With an electronic dictionary, generally speaking, > what you search is what you get, and nothing beyond. > > Dan Pratt > > > In a message dated 11/5/2012 6:00:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > gillesmaurice.deschryver@xxxxxxxx writes: > > > > Dear Friends and Colleagues, > > This is Breaking News indeed! > > "Macmillan Dictionaries will no longer appear as physical books. The final > copies are rolling off the presses at this very moment, and from next year, > Macmillan Dictionary will be available only online." > > http://www.macmillaneducation.com/MediaArticle.aspx?id=1778 > > For the past decade or so, we have all been expecting an announcement like > this from one of the major dictionary publishers, and I am happy to see > that > the honour goes to Macmillan, a key player in the monolingual learner's > dictionary market for English. Finally getting rid of the paper > constraints, > and starting to exploit the true power of the digital medium -- and to be > able to do just that -- is nothing less than a revolution. I predict that > the other major publishers will now also stop talking about what should be > done, to simply take the step and do it. > > More info in Michael Rundell's post below. > > Kind regards, > > Gilles-Maurice de Schryver > > President of AFRILEX and author of "Lexicographers' Dreams in the > Electronic-Dictionary Age" (IJL 16.2, 2003, free access here > <http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4646/3> ) > > > From: euralex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:euralex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On > Behalf Of Anne Dykstra > Sent: maandag 5 november 2012 10:11 > To: euralex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [euralex] End of print dictionaries at Macmillan > > Macmillan has announced that, from 2013, it will no longer be publishing > dictionaries in book form. It will focus instead on its expanding range of > digital resources. Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan > dictionary list, sees this as both inevitable and entirely positive. He > regards the printed book as a very limiting medium, and increasingly out of > step with the way people look for information in the second decade of the > 21st century. While printed reference books are out of date as soon they go > on sale, an online dictionary can be kept fully up to date. More than this, > the digital medium allows dictionary publishers to provide valuable > additional resources, like audio pronunciations, interactive games, and a > thesaurus function. As well as all these, Macmillan has a crowd-sourced > dictionary (the 'Open Dictionary') fed by users from all over the world, > and > an active blog with four or five new posts every week on language-related > issues. Michael says he was struck by one of the findings reported at the > recent Euralex Congress in Gilles-Maurice de Schryver's plenary: his > analysis of papers in the Euralex archive showed that the word 'look up' > had > declined in frequency and been overtaken by 'search'. This is the world > that > dictionaries belong to now. 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