Farewell Britannica – End of Empire

15 Mar 2012 1 Comment

by Kim in Commentary, Technology Tags: ,

In an inevitable yet still somewhat shocking move, Encyclopedia Britannica has announced that they will no longer be issuing their encyclopedia in book form.

I don’t have any fond memories of leafing through the actual Britannica as a child – our shelves were inhabited by the more prosaic World Book Encyclopedia…

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