School Discount

[Yifeng]

Hi there -

I had been checking up not too long ago to see if the Chinese-Chinese dictionary was available (very excited about the news), and could've sworn I saw a mention of a possible school discount. I've talked to a few profs at my university and they're very keen on the idea of promoting plecodict to their students - but is there a way we could organize a student discount through the school?

Also, and I know I've asked before, but is there anyway any kind of classical Chinese dictionary could be worked in at some point?

This product is great btw, I've been using it for about a year now, and since I've returned to more research oriented work, the handwriting input has sped me up ridiculously. I use it in conjunction with the Matthews now - I look up the character on my palm, and then search for it by pronunciation in the Matthews. Much easier

Thanks a lot!

 

[lmcjipo]

Hi there -

I had been checking up not too long ago to see if the Chinese-Chinese dictionary was available (very excited about the news), and could've sworn I saw a mention of a possible school discount. I've talked to a few profs at my university and they're very keen on the idea of promoting plecodict to their students - but is there a way we could organize a student discount through the school?

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Thanks a lot!

If you go to http://www.pleco.com/pdpreview.html Mike announced that a school/educational discount was probably going to be possible for PlecoDict v2.0 or Pleco v2.0

Educational Discounts

We're finally planning to start offering educational discounts with the release of 2.0. However, these discounts will not be available to individuals purchasing software directly from us - after looking into that, we've decided that it's simply not feasible to verify people's academic status on an individual basis. Instead, they'll be offered in the form of school discount programs, where someone at your school or university sets up a purchase account with us and you can then use that account to purchase software through our online store at a discount. We're already starting to roll out this program on a pilot basis now, so if you work at a school that teaches Chinese and would like to arrange a discount for your students, send us (sales@pleco.com) an e-mail and we'll be glad to discuss the details with you.

 

[mikelove]

Yifeng - lmcjipo is correct that we won't be rolling out a large-scale educational discount program until 2.0, but we're trying out school discounts on a pilot basis now, so if you e-mail me at mikelove@pleco.com I'd be glad to talk about setting up a discount coupon for your school. (same goes for anyone else reading this who's interested in setting up a discount at their school)

As for your question about classical Chinese, we've thought about it but it would take a pretty significant commitment of effort on our part - not just licensing a dictionary, but making sure our fonts / handwriting recognizer / etc supported lots of obscure classical characters. On top of which we'd also need to find a classical-Chinese-to-English dictionary that was available in electronic format (which as far as I know the Matthews is not).