|
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $70068.3
Gold: $2233 Change: $38.8
Silver: $24.94 Change: $0.34
|
|
|
News Link • Books
Closing the Book: Encyclopedia Britannica Goes All Digital
03-14-2012
•
Katy Steinmetz newsfeed.time.com
The earth’s best-known encyclopedia (or encylopaedia, if you want to be all proper about it) announced today that it is producing no more print editions. Like so many newspapers and publishing houses, Encyclopaedia Britannica is going completely digital"after 244 years of providing some of the finest page-flipping man has ever seen. While the trees may breathe easy and people who write “r” instead of “are” may not understand why this is news, a certain crowd will shed a nostalgic tear for this 32-volume set, once the lifeblood of door-to-door salesmen and false comfort that there was a finite, digestible amount of facts worth knowing.
Read Full Story
|
Reported by
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
|
•
•
|
Join us on our
Social Networks |
Share this page with your friends
on your favorite social network:
|
|
|
|
|
Additional related items you might find interesting: |
|
Tags: earths, encyclopedia, encylopaedia, proper, announced, producing, editions, newspapers, publishing, houses |
|
|
|