Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer publish print editions after more than 244 years of doing so, the NYT first reported Tuesday with an advance look at the press release, with the 32-volume set published in 2010 deemed to be its last-ever. (That edition has sold just 8,000 copies, a far cry from Britannica’s peak in 1990, when 120,000 sets sold; there are another 4,000 copies of the 2010 edition still sitting in the company’s warehouse.) Instead Britannica will concentrate on its online business and a wide range of editorial products, including several different digital versions of Encyclopedia that has, to […]
