Tag: Encyclopaedia Britannica

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses

Mar 14, 2012

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Education, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

New York Times: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses 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 fixtures in American homes will be discontinued, company executives said. In an…