Encyclopedia Britannica ceases to exist -- in print

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Chicago Tribune:

Encyclopedia Britannica is closing the book on its print edition. The move may be the single most powerful symbol to date of our rapidly changing media world, a world in which hard copies of books could become a quaint thing of the past.

 

Today, we clutch iPads and Kindles and Nooks, bragging about how they lighten our load and encourage us to read more. When we want to "look something up," we're far more likely to reach for our laptops than walk across the room to thumb through a reference book.

 

And that unquenchable desire for convenience makes for a world in which a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica -- the oldest English-language encyclopedia in existence -- no longer has a home.