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How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. apologies to aerosmith by i+love+pineapples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Deposition's just begun
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    What did IBM do
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    (run away, run away from the claim)