CHICAGO — It turns out all Encyclopaedia Britannica had to do to breathe new life into the sale of its print edition was to kill it. Since Brit...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.15.2012
On Wednesday, Myron Taxman, one of the world's last door-to-door Encyclopedia Britannica salesmen, received a flurry of phone calls and emails from hi...
Lauren Ashburn | Posted 05.14.2012
Call me old-fashioned, but I am waxing nostalgic for one of my first loves: Encyclopaedia Britannica. After publishing 244 years worth of page-turning picturesque presentations, its print run is over.
Posted 03.13.2012
"The Encyclopaedia Britannica", the world's most famous print encyclopedia, has announced that after 244 years in print, it is no longer going to make...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 11.26.2011
In an age when airport terminals tweet and even dry cleaners ask to be “liked” on Facebook, social media has a surprise holdout: Wikipedia. The...
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the early fears of many critics, Wikipedia has proven to be a place to find information quickly and easily. What does this mean for us and how we attain knowledge?
BusinessWeek | Brian Burnsed | Posted 05.25.2011
Jimmy Wales isn't entertaining David-and-Goliath delusions when it comes to battling Google at Internet search. Wales, co-founder of online encycloped...
Wall Street Journal | SCOTT MORRISON | Posted 05.25.2011
Google Inc. is taking aim at popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia with a new service that will let users write authoritative entries on subjects they...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 04.05.2012