Here is an interesting post I found a year and a half ago via Phil Bradley's weblog about an email conversation published in Wall Street Journal between the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales and Dale Hoiberg - editor-in-chief of Britannica Encyclopedia.
I don’t quite agree with Mr. Hoiberg statements in the last passage, but you can read it for yourself and make your opinion.
The article in WSJ also features a poll. Not surprisingly the results are in favor of Wikipedia. 1942 votes (57%) of the readers think that Wikipedia is going to end the traditional encyclopedia.
Maybe the executives at Brittanica need to examine closer the opinion of the users, who after all are the ones who will decide the fate of any information product.
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