{"id":9688,"date":"2010-08-29T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2010-08-29T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:41:23","slug":"no-more-oed-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/no-more-oed-on-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"No more OED on paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oxford English Dictionary will no longer be published on paper<\/a> \u2013 and it took a lot of paper. Is this a harbinger of the death of paper? Probably not in our \"Addgeneration, but it is getting closer: although I have stacks of books on dusty shelves and still enjoy poking around in second-hand bookshops, most of the books I buy to read now are on a Kindle \u2013 same for newspaper subscriptions.<\/p>\n

It was first published in sections 126 years ago and is known the world over.<\/p>\n

But the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will never appear in print again, its owners have announced.<\/p>\n

Instead the 80 lexicographers who have been working on the third edition for the past 21 years have been told it will exist solely online when it is complete.<\/p>\n

The OED has already been available on the internet for the last ten years and receives two million hits a month at a cost of \u00a3205 a year, plus VAT.<\/p>\n

Its owners, Oxford University Press (OUP), says the dominance of the internet means the latest update to the definitive record of the English language will never be published in print.<\/p>\n

‘The print dictionary market is just disappearing, it is falling away by tens of per cent a year,’ said Nigel Portwood, 44, chief executive of OUP.<\/p>\n

‘Our primary purpose – and this takes a bit of adjusting to – is not profit, it is the dissemination of knowledge.<\/p>\n

‘The university and I get very excited about digital because suddenly you can reach more people than ever before.<\/p>\n

‘Print is still pretty important round here but, wherever possible, if there is an opportunity, we are moving out of it.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is an interesting history of the OED here<\/a>. You will have to read it on a computer screen, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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