What do you see in the future for yourself, and also for the 100 Words series?
The future is interesting. The past ten years has been an interesting period in lexicography as more people move online. Here at the American Heritage® Dictionary, we license our content to a lot of online providers, including Dictionary.com and others. I don’t want to focus on just that, but there’s a bunch of online providers. Often, if you’re doing an online search, what you see is ours or the competitor’s. We’re not the only ones doing this, but it’s not like our work or our output is restricted to print. What’s going to be interesting is seeing what the increasing availability of content online means to the print dictionary.
As far as my job is concerned, it stays the same. I’m creating content and revising definitions; I’m drafting definitions. How that material is disseminated to the world may be changing, but the basic work is still what I’ve been doing for the past ten or eleven years.
As far as the 100 Words series goes, there will definitely be more. Like I said, they are very popular, they’re fun to talk about, and I do a lot of radio interviews about them.
Well, the future certainly looks bright! I can’t wait for the next title in the 100 Words series.
Select Titles from the “100 Words” Series
▪ 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (ISBN: 978-0-618-49333-3)
▪ 100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know (ISBN: 978-0-618-55146-0)
▪ 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart (ISBN: 978-0-618-71488-9)
▪ 100 Words to Make You Sound Great (ISBN: 978-0-618-88310-3)
For more information on the 100 Words series, please visit Houghton Mifflin’s website: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
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