Roget continued revisions and updates until his death at 90, and his heirs kept the book going as a kind of family concern for a full century, before the name, like Webster's, passed into the public domain.
Unlike many digital works, most reference works cannot be updated without releasing a new edition; the initial creation of a reference work and continued revisions require considerable labor.
Marketing includes ongoing Web hosting and maintenance fees, continued revisions and reprinting of the brochure and stationery, additional direct mail campaigns, ongoing advertising in trade publications, and online advertising for the website.
Continued revisions were made until an finally acceptable translated Chinese version was agreed upon.
The continued revision of the Individual Cheese Standards for Cheddar (C-1), Danbo (C-3), Edam (C-4), Gouda (C-5), Havarti (C-6), Samsø (C-7), Emmental (C-9), Tilsiter (C-11), Saint Paulin (C-13), Provolone (C-15), Cottage Cheese (C-16), Coulommiers (C-18), Camembert (C-33) and Brie (C-34).
The price-subsidy mechanism will require continuing revision, and any prospect of political intervention risks deterring investment.
On the other hand, world supplies of wood are shrinking, and the increasing cost of obtaining, finishing, and distributing timber has brought continuing revision in traditional practices.
Over the years, this explosion, which we term the 'dinosaur diversification event' (DDE), was dated variously to the Carnian and Norian, depending on continuing revision of continental stratigraphy5,6.
One of the first to preach progressive revelation, which allowed for continuing revision and renewal of doctrinal beliefs, Hicks in 1817 successfully opposed the adoption of a set creed by the Society of Friends at the Baltimore, Maryland, yearly meeting.
The discovery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the 1980s reflects to some degree the continuing revision of our understanding of what this critical molecule does in humans, its mechanisms of action, and its cellular targets.
Because the process was hasty, they said, they missed some things, but they have continued the revisions during the past two years and plan to roll out a new line of books this fall.
