How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 8, 2004 @10:15AM from the damn-you-internet-age dept.

prostoalex writes "Don't remember an encyclopedia salesman knocking at your door lately? Turns out, fewer Americans are purchasing layaway plans for heavy-bound multiple-volume sets (once sold at $1,400) and turning to the Web for answers, according to AP/Miami Herald. What's more interesting is that even the software encyclopedias are not selling as well, with Google changing the landscape of finding good reference information. 'Microsoft's $70 Encarta is the best seller but industrywide sales for encyclopedia software fell 7.3 percent in 2003 from 2002,' says Associated Press article."

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Re:in other news... by prockcore · 2004-03-08 11:02 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Ayn Rand is a crackpot and a hypocrite.

She goes on and on about how capitalism is great and we don't need governments, yet she herself threatened to sue a professor who was critical about her work.