PRINT DICTIONARIES GOING THE WAY OF THE DODO?

Papers Fight Over Whether Third Oxford English Dictionary Will Ever Be Printed
from Publishers Lunch

The original story in the Sunday Times this weekend was interesting, and reasonable enough. Oxford University Press ceo Nigel Portwood noted "the print dictionary market is just disappearing, it is falling away by tens of per cent a year."

Asked if the company would issue a print version of the third edition of the OED--said to be 28 percent complete, and estimated to be at least 10 years away...