{"id":16165,"date":"2012-03-14T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T08:34:14","slug":"no-more-print-for-encyclopaedia-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/14\/no-more-print-for-encyclopaedia-britannica\/","title":{"rendered":"No more print for Encyclopaedia Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses\/?hp\">New York Times<\/a> reports, somewhat sadly, that Encyclopaedia Britannica will not continue with the printed version any more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age \u2014 and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia \u2014 Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/03\/13\/2255247\/after-244-years-the-end-for-the-dead-tree-encyclopedia-britannica\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>New York Times reports, somewhat sadly, that Encyclopaedia Britannica will not continue with the printed version any more. After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. [&#8230;] In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age \u2014 and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia \u2014 Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/14\/no-more-print-for-encyclopaedia-britannica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No more print for Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2294,62,1334],"tags":[286,1104,1112],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-books","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-history","tag-knowledge","tag-wikipedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8654,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/22\/carlsberg-ridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":16165,"position":0},"title":"Carlsberg Ridge","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I was pretty surprised today to find out that there is a place that bears the name of my favourite beer - Carlsberg Ridge. 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