[Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:00, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
>>>
>> No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
>> being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
>> am confusing things.
>
> There's also World Book in English, the biggest seller of print
> encyclopedias (aimed at high-school students).
> And Barsa in Portuguese.
>
> And there are a few encyclopedias like Sarvavijnanakosam  (in
> Malayalam) being written from the ground up for the first time, volume
> by volume... presumably they will print a copy of each volume for
> completion, even as they move their work online.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvavijnanakosam
> http://mal.sarva.gov.in

There is ~20 volumes Serbian Encyclopedia in progress, likely to be
finished around 2050. I have no idea what would be the purpose of that
paper encyclopedia at that time, but I know that it is getting
significant money from Serbian authorities.