The century of Pop will retire Oxford dictionary to the online version

The power of the Internet is gradually retiring the paper English dictionaries that have been in vogue for centuries. In an interview with the British "Sunday Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10299.html", Gore Potter, executive director of Oxford University Press, the birthplace of the Oxford English Dictionary, said the current , the market for paper dictionaries is shrinking at a rate of 10% a year. He made it clear that he did not intend to launch the 3rd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary has been published from 1884 onwards, with the first edition of 12 volumes in 1928. Currently, the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary has a total of 20 volumes, priced at 750 pounds, and has sold 30,000 sets since its inception in 1989. Almost everyone in Britain knows the dictionary, but very few people have actually opened it. Writer Ben Robinson has a miniature edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, but it has rarely been used lately. He told reporters that the basic use of the online Oxford English Dictionary, and sometimes the iphone dictionary, and online thesaurus is more convenient to access. Robinson said he would be "saddened" by the disappearance of the paper Oxford English Dictionary, although the online version would bring more people into contact with the great canon.

The online reading of the Oxford English Dictionary has now reached 2 million per month, although online readings are not cheap – the US has an annual fee of $295, but more and more readers are choosing to read online. The online Oxford English Dictionary was launched in 2000, and paperless editing enabled dictionaries to reflect language changes in a timely fashion. Now, dictionary editors can update the contents of dictionaries every 3 months, for example by adding two new words in their March this year: "Techy" (irritable) and "superbug" (super bacteria).

It is reported that the impact of online dictionaries on paper dictionaries has also begun to affect some small and medium sized paper dictionaries, while Oxford Press says the main focus of the current dictionary editorial department is on an online dictionary of growing demand.