2008/12/22 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > They called the function "upsell"? *facepalm* Wikipedia doesn't need > to do anything to compete with Britannica, just leave them to collapse > under the weight of their own ineptitude. > > We should probably run a large public "Save Britannica!" campaign - > how to save a great historical encyclopedia, second only to the OED as > one of the great works of Anglophone non-fiction, from its own > business stupidity. I'm halfway serious. What could we do with a "Save > Britannica" campaign?
Very little. We can't afford to buy it. Britannica's survival in some form is not a concern. The brand and the content are worth enough that if it's current owners give up there will always be someone looking to buy. If it were sold tomorrow likely candidates would be Microsoft (who wanted it for encarta and would probably still go for it if the price was low enough), Google who might try using it to populate knol, Yahoo to annoy google. It fits answers.com's profile if they survive that long. Then there are various media companies that might think about it. News Corp for example. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
