Any student and/or parent who has made countless trips to the library to gather information for term papers and science projects from the printed version of the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica will ...

(AP/CBS) Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that after 244 years, it will put an end to the print edition and be available only in digital form. Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it ...

Its ink-on-paper version is almost universally regarded as the world’s best encyclopedia. Now, at long last, the venerable Chicago publishing house brings it all to glorious fruition in multimedia ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than ...

It seems that old chestnut about absence making the heart grow fonder is true — at least when it comes to reference books. After announcing in mid-March that it would no longer publish the print ...

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Thinking of getting a CD-ROM encyclopedia for your computer? Don’t do it. Not if you already have an Internet connection. The two most popular encyclopedia CD-ROMs--Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2001, ...

Chicago-based Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. launched an enhanced version of its on-line encyclopedia and lowered its price by 43 percent for individual subscribers. Britannica Online (www.eb.com) is ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, someone among the ...

The publisher is ditching its weighty tomes to concentrate on an internet version, after recognising that knowledge was changing so quickly that the they were becoming obsolete as soon as they were ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica -- which has been in print continuously since its beginnings in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768 -- is finally abandoning print and moving exclusively online. The current ...

The digital age has taken its toll on another long-held tradition: Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print and from now on will be all digital. Its final printed product will be the 2010 ...