It was only a matter of time before the venerable encyclopedia company would be forced to stop producing its famous encyclopedia. The internet has had that effect on plenty of print media, from newpapers to books. I believe that it will be a matter of time before even the Oxford or Longman dictionaries will be forced to stop production due to the ease of obtaining similar information online.

I used to read EB since I was 13. I have my parent’s old set. The more I play around on the internet the less I played with EB. havent picked one up in a year. Ah well.

Since childhood, I have always loved the Encyclopedia Britannica. What a loss and yet, perhaps it’s another adjustment to make in this world of the WWB.

I love reading under a lamp, so now I’ll have to sit here… at the ‘puter, unless hubby wants it.

It will be easier to manipulate history this way.

Sadly will anyone really notice the switch? People don’t read anymore and when they do its junk food for the brain, just look at Amazon’s bestseller list. The lost of print mediums is tragic and people might come to the realization when it’s too late.

Yeah, but in spite of the vast advantages of the Internet, we’ll have WikiLeaks all locked up and we still won’t know what’s going on, let alone what might be coming up ahead. But that’s okay, because we didn’t want to do anything to prevent it anyway.  Que sera, Sarah.