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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
March 15, 2012 Volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica printed back in 1987, are shown on a desk on March 15. Encyclopedia Britannica announced the end of its print editions. Britannica was first published in 1768, and is the oldest English-language...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size The latest Encyclopaedia Britannica 32-volume edition will be the last to see print as its publisher announced this week the retirement of the book collection after more than two centuries of delivering knowledge to millions to around the...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
T he convenient gadget age of iPads and Kindles have probably shot down its bulkiest ancestor. The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said on Tuesday that it will...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Opposition to the controversial Stop Online Piracy and Protect Internet Privacy Acts has caused a major stir among Republicans and Democrats alike, with 18 Senators including seven co-sponsors turning against the legislation...Published: 14 March,...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
10 Encyclopaedia Britannica, one of the world's weightiest and best-respected repositories of knowledge, has decided to stop publishing its famous 32-volume print edition for the first time in 244 years. The book-form of Encyclopaedia Britannica has...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. has announced that it will no longer publish the print version and will focus on being totally digital. The end of the print set is something we've foreseen for some time, Jorge Cauz, president of Chicago-based...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 1 year ago
In 1768, a Scottish engraver named Andrew Bell and a printer named Colin Macfarquhar set ink to paper to create three cross-referenced volumes known as Encyclopaedia Britannica. On Tuesday, Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said it would stop printing...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
Font Resize New York Times After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door to door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 1 year ago
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 years ago. The book-form of Encyclopaedia Britannica has...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Eyder Peralta The digital age has taken its toll on another long-held tradition: Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print and from now on will be all digital. Its final printed product will be the 2010 edition, which The New York Times...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, the oldest English-language encyclopedia still in print is moving solely into the digital age. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
After 244 years and more than 7 million printed sets, the company is announcing today that it will no longer publish a print edition. The last, 32-volume print version, published in 2010, weighs 129 pounds and sells for $1,395. Only 12,000 sets of...
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Venture Beat
| 1 year ago
Encyclopaedia Britannica, mortally wounded by the web and Wikipedia, will be discounting production of its print edition in favor of a strictly digital strategy, the company announced Tuesday. It's a rite of passage in this new era, Encyclopaedia...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
Encyclopedia Britannica goes out of print Newstalk ZB March 14, 2012, 12:04 pm After 244 years Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. A New York Times blog has paid tribute to the prestigious, gold-lettered sets of reference books. It's a...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
After 244 years, Encyclopaedia Britannica is shelving its venerable printed edition in favor of its Web-based version, completing a digital transition and marking the end of one of longest chapters in publishing history. "We just decided that it was...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Seven million sets later, Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer publish volumes in print. Photograph: Robert Mullan / Alamy/Alamy Its legacy winds back through centuries and across continents, past the birth of America to the waning days of the...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Britannica usually prints a new set every two years, but 2010's 32-volume set will be its last as the company goes fully digital. After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica will cease production of its iconic multi-volume book sets. Britannica usually...
