"ScottL" wrote:
Someone may have suggested this below in the thread, I have only read
about half of it. No, it wasn't
But, I thought I would throw it in anyway.
Good, be bold :-)
According to our article on the topic Encyclopædia Britannica started losing sales and value in the company around 1990 and then sold for 135 million in 1996. All print encyclopedias seem to be doing less well than in the last for obvious reasons. I think this might make them open to the ideas of selling the copyrights (not the companies) to earlier versions. The 1911 Britannica has been pretty useful to the project I suspect
that older editions of a number of print encyclopedias might also be useful.
SKL
I'd add that most languages (even big ones) don't have a free encyclopedia like it, so having one would certainly help.