Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that it is going out of print, ending a 244-year run. Once the world's preeminent font of facts, its gilded volumes attesting to its supremacy, the encyclopedia ...

de la Merced used to read encyclopedias for fun as a child. For nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to show that ...