Regular readers of this blog will know that I have occasionally mentioned Chambers Dictionary, well, just once or twice...Its parent company, Hachette (there's an apt name if I ever heard one) decided last month that it would be a good idea to close the Edinburgh office, out of which Chambers has worked for 190 years - for no doubt sound financial reasons, but no sound human reasons - and split ChambersHarrup between the faceless leviathans of Hodder and Larousse.
A petition has been started in the hope of saving the Edinburgh office - with its twenty-seven real people doing real jobs - and prevent Chambers being subsumed. PLEASE SIGN UP!
Links:
Save Chambers Petition (you don't have to donate to iPetition)
Buy Chambers Dictionary! (Nothing compares with a real one!!)
@ChambersOnline (on Twitter)
Chambers Online Dictionary (The online version)
Clishmaclaver (ChambersOnline's Brilliant Blog)
The background story can be read on the Publishing Scotland website, and in The Scotsman.
Footnote, 16/11/09: the Chambers office is now due to close by New Year, with half the staff having left by the end of November. I am at a loss to describe how angry this makes me feel, and how sad I am. Bean-counters - I wonder how you sleep.
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8 comments:
I'll sign. Will go to the link now.
Me too :o)
Thanks, girls!
Signing now!
Have just bought a copy :-)
C x
Lily - Thank you!
Carol - Yey! Atta girl!!
I hope you don't mind, but I've borrowed(?) one of your word counters for my NaNo counter.
Blimey, Debs - you're welcome! They're there for the taking!
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