Macmillan Dictionaries/DW Education Launch iPhone/iPad Apps

mediabistro.com: eBookNewser: "Macmillan Dictionaries has teamed up with software company DW Education to launch a suite of iPhone and iPad apps based on their dictionaries. The apps are interactive and users can create personalized word lists. Users can also distinguish between British and American English. The Macmillan website explains: 'These tools will give you immediate access to definitions, phonetics, pronunciation and synonyms, plus the unique Macmillan English Dictionary red-star system indicating frequency of word usage for the most common words in English. In addition, the highly-interactive interface allows you to cross-search for the definitions of other words and to create your own wordlists.'"

Oxford University Press: Third Edition of OED Unlikely to Appear in Print Format

The Guardian: "Publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have confirmed that the third edition may never appear in print. A team of 80 lexicographers began working on it following the publication of the second edition in 1989. It is 28% finished. In comments to a Sunday newspaper, Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, which owns the dictionary, said: 'The print dictionary market is just disappearing. It is falling away by tens of percent a year.' Asked if he thought the third edition would appear in printed format, he said: 'I don't think so.' ..." But no final decision has been made. Note that the Third Edition is not due for another ten years.