How in the hell is this just now happening if ENCARTA was discontinued over three years ago?
Seems like this should have taken place ten years ago or more.
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
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Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#12It's weird, but I kinda wouldn't mind having a set of the last Encyclopaedia Britannica. The zenith of 244 years of tradition, an emblem of the transition of our knowledge to an online space, and still very functional in a quaint way...
The poetry in your comment is making me want one too, really bad...
Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#13$1,400 to buy it in book form. That may be part of the reason it's not being printed anymore.
32 volumes x ~$45 a piece. Seems to make sense. They're hard cover and very beautiful, can be used as a decorative piece as well.
Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The future is so clearly not britannica.com. That site doesn't even work without javascript, and where the heck is the "Edit" button?
Citable facts published by someone reputable are extremely important. Wikipedia is very much not that. britannica.com could very well be a citation for a wikipedia article but never the other way around.
Fail at step 1 because I cannot even get to the site (and more importantly, neither can Google), because Britannica does not understand how the web works ...
11 years after the web ate their expensive lunch meetings, they still don't get the web.
Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#15Back in the day, it was a great product. My family had an edition endorsed (in the first pages) by Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon, and I can't calculate how many hours I spent leafing through the pages. I guess that's been replaced by Wikipedia's "Random article" link, but with EB you never got crap about Pokemon.
Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#16Back in the day, it was a great product. My family had an edition endorsed (in the first pages) by Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon, and I can't calculate how many hours I spent leafing through the pages. I guess that's been replaced by Wikipedia's "Random article" link, but with EB you never got crap about Pokemon.
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#17> Only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold, and the remaining 4,000 have been stored in a warehouse until they can be purchased. I suspect it won't take them very long to sell those copies after this announcement.
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Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#18Back in the day, it was a great product. My family had an edition endorsed (in the first pages) by Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon, and I can't calculate how many hours I spent leafing through the pages. I guess that's been replaced by Wikipedia's "Random article" link, but with EB you never got crap about Pokemon.
There was huge value in thumbing through these as a child. We could never afford the set, but I had used copies of individual volumes and I spent many, many hours reading random topics. You just don't get that kind of discovery in an online version. Maybe you could, but you don't.
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#19“Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.” The future is clearly http://www.britannica.com
The future is so clearly not britannica.com. That site doesn't even work without javascript, and where the heck is the "Edit" button?
Not that I think the future is britannica.com is the future either, but not working without javascript is unlikely to be the thing that stops them (or any site, really) from succeeding.
Re: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
#20“Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.” The future is clearly http://www.britannica.com
The future is so clearly not britannica.com. That site doesn't even work without javascript, and where the heck is the "Edit" button?
I think it's ridiculous in this day and age for people to expect webpages to work without JS.