To think that all African kids will have access to electronic media in the foreseeable future is fictitious and simply shows lack of familiarity with the situation in 'bush schools'. I sincerely hope that this decision does not apply to Macmillan in Namibia, at this stage.
Cheers, Wilfrid Haacke On 06/11/2012 02:03, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver wrote:
Thanks for this, Dan. I think this is exactly an area where designers now have to be creative: what is good in print needs to be kept for the digital medium, what the digital medium can add should be developed. Right now what we tend to stumble upon in an online environment is advertisements, but this can be changed, and replaced with all sorts of adaptive content rather than targeted ads. All best, Gilles-Maurice.*From:*euralex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:euralex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Lexicophile@xxxxxxx*Sent:* maandag 5 november 2012 14:49*To:* euralex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; DSNA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; lexicographylist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; asialex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; afrilex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; lexicografie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ishll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx*Subject:* [euralex] Re: [DSNA] RE: End of print dictionaries at MacmillanWhat 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 PrattIn a message dated 11/5/2012 6:00:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, gillesmaurice.deschryver@xxxxxxxx <mailto: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%40freelists.org> [mailto:euralex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:euralex-bounce%40freelists.org>] On Behalf Of Anne Dykstra Sent: maandag 5 november 2012 10:11 To: euralex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:euralex%40freelists.org> 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. For more details, see the post on this subject in Macmillan's blog: http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/bye-print-dictionary. 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