Dictionaries are here to stay and for long. Even though the technologically suave youth of today have various means at their disposal to find out what a word means or how it has evolved, dictionaries still fly off their shelves, claim bookstores in Bangalore, begging to differ with the Oxford University Press which has said that it may not bring out its dictionary in print form as the online version is turning out to be largely popular.
Deepak Shah, director of Sapna Book House, says there is an ever increasing demand for dictionaries, especially the branded ones. “In India, people still want a printed version. Considering the fact that only 1% of the population has access to internet facilities, the market for dictionaries in South East Asia is high.”
He cites the example of the Mysore University Dictionary that has been digitised in a single CD-ROM. “I sell one CD version for every 50 copies of the printed dictionary,” he explains.
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