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In “All the Knowledge in the World,” Simon Garfield recounts the history of the encyclopedia — a tale of ambitious effort, numerous errors and lots of paper. By Jing Tsu When you purchase an ...

This article was originally published on May 5, 2013. Thanks to a door-to-door salesman, the Wonderland of Knowledge encyclopedia officially became part of our household in the mid-1960s. My parents ...

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 ...

There can be no clearer evidence of the swift and steep decline of the printed reference book than these figures taken from a recent New York Times: In 1990, the Encyclopedia Britannica sold 120,000 ...

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...