Online Encyclopedia

There's simply things we can do with the print medium that we cannot do with the digital media. And there's also things that we can do with the digital media that
we cannot do with print. It works both ways.
The book version, for example, "lends itself to long, discursive articles, of which the encyclopedia has quite a few," he said. "For looking up bits of information, the electronic version is superior. For reading discursive essays, the print version is superior."
We're going to let the marketplace make that decision for us."
Let's do an example:
Golf Course
Golf today is one of America's fastest growing participant sports, particularly among public golf course players. Many private golf courses still exist in the 1990s, with some determining membership on racial or religious grounds...
What do people look online?
I guess it is a most specific subject, like How many golf courses are in...?
Or when was the first golf course built?
They look for a fast, detailed, immediate answer.
For now, it is still better reading on our coach, the computer screen is mainly for fast answers.
Millions of people turn to the reference site to look up facts - and fast read them.
The Internet is, in effect, a single resource composed of many subresources.
It is more analogous to an encyclopedia than to a single book.
Let's say it is the best place to build an encyclopedia.


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