NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica will cease production of its iconic multi-volume book sets. Britannica usually prints a new set of the tomes every two years, but ...

The last of the printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are “flying off the shelves,” the company’s president says.

An advert in a 1965 issue of Playboy for the Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Books set. Patti McConville / Alamy Categorising knowledge. Hutchins and Adler believed that the Syntopicon presented ...

The 54-volume Great Books of the Western World series, a set of books that sold more than a million copies in the 1950s and '60s, was: a. an empowering, groundbreaking effort to bring brilliant ...

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Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years. Latest U.S.

In 1974, for instance, the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica added to the work a one-volume “Propaedia,” which sought to provide a detailed outline of human knowledge, while referencing ...

The world received word yesterday that the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica would stop producing hardbound, paper copies of their venerable reference. Actually, they stopped in 2010 but didn ...

The Encyclopedia Britannica will update its website this week with tools to streamline user-submitted suggestions for edits and provide them a credit by publishing their name alongside the article.

INFOGRAPHIC: How Wikipedia Killed Encyclopedia Britannica Books. By Dina Spector. 2012-03-19T14:10:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of ...

For nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to show that its owners cared about knowledge.