by amazon.com » Tue Oct 18, 2016 2:52 am
dictionary.com wrote:Didn't see this coming. wrote:Another fun bit of trivia is that the name "Webster" is public domain, so many hack job publishers will make a shit dictionary and just print "Webster" by itself on the front of it to sell to unassuming consumers.
yeah, cuz dictionaries are really flying off the damn shelves nowadays.
A quick Amazon search brings up over 300k dictionaries, not to mention you can still buy them in every Walmart, airport, college book store, regular book store, the list goes on and on. I am not saying they are a hot ticket item, but they still sell really well based on their availability everywhere, and "Webster" has been in public domain long before the internet was easily available to the general public.
[quote="dictionary.com"][quote="Didn't see this coming."]Another fun bit of trivia is that the name "Webster" is public domain, so many hack job publishers will make a shit dictionary and just print "Webster" by itself on the front of it to sell to unassuming consumers.[/quote]yeah, cuz dictionaries are really flying off the damn shelves nowadays.[/quote]
A quick Amazon search brings up over 300k dictionaries, not to mention you can still buy them in every Walmart, airport, college book store, regular book store, the list goes on and on. I am not saying they are a hot ticket item, but they still sell really well based on their availability everywhere, and "Webster" has been in public domain long before the internet was easily available to the general public.