Recently, the publisher of the 126-year-old, 20-volume, 750-pound, $1,165 Oxford English Dictionary said he thought it was increasingly unlikely that another edition would appear on paper. It seems ...
Almost 250 years after it first appeared, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is ceasing its print edition. This signals the end not just of a venerable print reference, but perhaps the end of the ...
The last doors slammed shut on encyclopedia salesmen years ago. Beginning in the early 1990s, many parents decided that instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars for a weighty set of books, the ...
Anthony Wilson-Smith is president and CEO of the non-profit organization Historica Canada and a former editor-in-chief of Maclean’s Magazine. The meeting room at Norway House, hard by the European ...