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Perhaps not britannica, but the fact that wikipedia gets a huge amount of search traffic 'steals' a lot of potential earnings from would-be content creators.
by marshallp 17y ago
Perhaps not britannica, but the fact that wikipedia gets a huge amount of search traffic 'steals' a lot of potential earnings from would-be content creators.
- loup-vaillant 17y agoYou sound like this is a bad thing. On the contrary, I think this is great. By killing the encyclopaedia industry, Wikipedia made everybody else richer. The reasoning is dead simple: if something you use suddenly gets cheaper, you get a bit richer. If something you can't afford (but wanted to have) suddenly becomes affordable, your buying power increases, making you a bit richer. I think that destroying an entire industry while making everyone else richer is worth often worth the trade-off. In the case of Wikipedia, I have no doubt.