Thread: Encyclopedia Brittanica stops printing

Did anyone watch Nickelodeon as a kid? I hate the Britannica spokesguy. What a d-bag.

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The beginning of the end for the authoritative print encyclopedia was this 2005 Nature study, which found that in entries about science topics Wikipedia contained an average of 3.86 mistakes per article--but that Britannica contained 2.92 mistakes per article, putting the "free encyclopedia anyone can edit" within earlobe flicking distance of the shelf-bending gold standard.

(Come to think of it, the beginning of the end was when the price of an encyclopedia converged with the price of a computer you can carry in your pocket "holds" entire libraries of books, every website ever, and several competing encyclopedias. Today, a print set of the Encyclopedia Britannica costs an order of magnitude more than an iPhone.)

Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes Out of Print, Won't Be Missed - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

On the bright side, it's electronic edition is now free! Better than $1300 for the hardcopy set...

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Originally Posted by Alundil

Agreed. I am a book lover, and a knowledge lover. "tomes of knowledge" have always been favorite things of mine. Sad to see them go the way of the dodo.

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This, funny thing was when I saw this today I was volunteering at a not-for-profit's library updating reference books and the like, it just made me sad to read.


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