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

[Neil Babbage]

I think what you might be remembering is that they used to sell them via a sales force who went door to door. They announced a few years back that they were stopping that.
 

------Original Message------
From: Yaroslav M. Blanter
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +0000, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I thought they had already stopped... I'm sure I remember an
> announcement like this a year or two ago... does anyone know what it
> is I'm remembering?
> 
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
am confusing things.

Cheers
Yaroslav



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