-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:45 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0
Keith Old wrote:
New features enabling the inclusion of this
user-generated content
will be
rolled out on the encyclopedia's website over the
next 24 hours, *
Britannica's* president, Jorge Cauz, said in an interview today."
(More
in
story)
<What's their business plan? Vetting the information to the standards
they profess is going to take a considerable staff to keep up with the
work that could in theory come their way.
What will be their revenue source to sustain all this? There's a
limited market for multi-volume dead-tree encyclopædias, and depending
on advertising revenues in the middle of a global financial is not very
secure. Maybe a sugar-daddy with bottomless pockets and insatiable
vanity?
Ec>>
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That this is not a dead-tree encyclopedia is exactly the point.
This is on their website. They do not plan to incorporate this
material into their print version.
Will
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