{"id":3293,"date":"2009-04-26T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2009-04-26T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:12:27","slug":"major-publishers-co-launch-anti-cgm-based-encyclopedia-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/major-publishers-co-launch-anti-cgm-based-encyclopedia-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Publishers Co-launch Non-UGC Encyclopedia Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3297\" title=\"Kotobank's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kotobank.gif\" alt=\"Kotobank's Logo\" width=\"240\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3298\" title=\"Asahi Newspaper\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/asahinewspaper.gif\" alt=\"Asahi Newspaper\" width=\"167\" height=\"39\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3299\" title=\"EC Navi's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ecnavi.gif\" alt=\"EC Navi's Logo\" width=\"160\" height=\"35\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/\">Asahi Newspaper<\/a>, the Internet portal company <a href=\"http:\/\/ecnavi.jp\/\">EC Navi[J]<\/a> and major publishers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodansha.co.jp\/english\/\">Kodansha<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shogakukan.co.jp\/english\/\">Shogakukan<\/a> jointly launched Thursday an online encyclopedia containing 430,000 words, which is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kotobank.jp\/\">Kotobank[J]<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 The service is provided for free, and the joint venture expects to earn USD1M in FY2009 from <a href=\"http:\/\/ov.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Overture[J]<\/a> ads appeared on the result pages of Kotobank.<br \/>\nThe revenues from ad sales are shared among the publishers which show appropriate results in response to a user&#8217;s request.\u00a0\u00a0 The venture expects another publishers and contents holders to join the team in the future, and to increase its content volume up to 200M words in three years.<br \/>\nThe participating publishers used to sell their paper-printed news encyclopedia products at bookstores, and annual sales volumes for all such products accounted for 3.5M copies at its peak.\u00a0\u00a0 But recently most publishers were forced to stop publishing due to declining in its sales.<br \/>\nAsahi&#8217;s project manager said confidently, on behalf of the entire venture,\u00a0 the new site would be more reliable since its contents were written by intellectuals and experts from various industries and academic societies, in contrast to UGC-based websites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a> and popular search engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asahi Newspaper, the Internet portal company EC Navi[J] and major publishers like Kodansha and Shogakukan jointly launched Thursday an online encyclopedia containing 430,000 words, which is called &#8220;Kotobank[J]&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 The service is provided for free, and the joint venture expects to earn USD1M in FY2009 from Overture[J] ads appeared on the result pages of Kotobank. 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