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- Old Reference Works Revived
There is no source of reference remotely as authoritative as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth labour of knowledge and ideas established in 1768. It numbered the likes of Einstein and Freud among its authors. Dozens of classic articles written by such luminaries are available on the Britannica's Web Site and included in its CD-ROM and DVD editions.
This is the tip of an iceberg of revival of old reference works. - The Six Sins Of The Wikipedia
(The author was among the first contributors to Nupedia, the Wikipedia's peer-reviewed predecessor,
and spent six years, on and off, studying the Wikipedia) - The Living Book
Dan Poynter and Danny Snow - the acknowledged gurus of the e-book revolution - did it again. The fourth edition of their U-Publish.com tome is a "living book". The public release is slated for December 2006-January 2007. But no two volumes will be alike. An appendix in the POD paperback edition will be updated monthly with breaking news from the couple's widely-circulated newsletters and, thus, differ in size and content. The standard trade edition will reference Web locations for monthly updates.
This is only the latest in a series of experiments that, put together, constitute a novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book.
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