It's sort of nice to know we didn't take out the entire sector:
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-b...
World Book still does a physical edition, selling a few thousand of each edition of their paper encyclopedia set for $1,199. The market is mostly schools and libraries.
- d.
It was pointed out elsewhere that the Italian *Enciclopedia Italiana* ( *Treccani*) is available in print with the last appendix published in 2020, and that the national encyclopedia of Azerbaijan (*Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası*) is not only published in print but still in the middle of being written, so the article's claim that this is the last paper encyclopedia might not be entirely accurate.
//Johan Jönsson --
Den mån 3 juli 2023 kl 11:55 skrev David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
It's sort of nice to know we didn't take out the entire sector:
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-b...
World Book still does a physical edition, selling a few thousand of each edition of their paper encyclopedia set for $1,199. The market is mostly schools and libraries.
- d.
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I'm presuming they assume English, yes :-)
On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 11:52, Johan Jönsson brevlistor@gmail.com wrote:
It was pointed out elsewhere that the Italian Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) is available in print with the last appendix published in 2020, and that the national encyclopedia of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası) is not only published in print but still in the middle of being written, so the article's claim that this is the last paper encyclopedia might not be entirely accurate.
//Johan Jönsson
Den mån 3 juli 2023 kl 11:55 skrev David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
It's sort of nice to know we didn't take out the entire sector:
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-b...
World Book still does a physical edition, selling a few thousand of each edition of their paper encyclopedia set for $1,199. The market is mostly schools and libraries.
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I had a set in the early 50s, amazed it's still around. Doug Weller English Wikipedia administrator/CheckUser/Oversight Member of the Arbitration Committee 2015-2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Doug_Weller
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 12:33 PM David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'm presuming they assume English, yes :-)
On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 11:52, Johan Jönsson brevlistor@gmail.com wrote:
It was pointed out elsewhere that the Italian Enciclopedia Italiana
(Treccani) is available in print with the last appendix published in 2020, and that the national encyclopedia of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası) is not only published in print but still in the middle of being written, so the article's claim that this is the last paper encyclopedia might not be entirely accurate.
//Johan Jönsson
Den mån 3 juli 2023 kl 11:55 skrev David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
It's sort of nice to know we didn't take out the entire sector:
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-b...
World Book still does a physical edition, selling a few thousand of each edition of their paper encyclopedia set for $1,199. The market is mostly schools and libraries.
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