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After 244 Years, the End For the Dead Tree Encyclopedia Britannica

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-encyclopedia-needn't-outweigh-you dept.

Rick Zeman writes "According to the New York Times, it's the end of the road for the printed Encyclopedia Brittanica, saying, '...in recent years, print reference books have been almost completely wiped out by the Internet and its vast spread of resources, particularly Wikipedia, which in 11 years has helped replace the authority of experts with the wisdom of the crowds.' The last print edition will be the 32-volume 2010 edition."

2 of 373 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Citable by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you're at the point where wikipedia isn't a valid reference, then no encyclopedia is really good enough...

    Spoken like a true fast fooder who has never actually read a Britannica article.

    Or... "those grapes were sour anyway".

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  2. Re:The ultimate hipster edition by bmo · · Score: 1, Troll

    You really don't know what's in Machinery's Handbook, do you?

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