Dave Shaw remembers when the encyclopedia salesman came to his family's rural Cass City home -- in Michigan's thumb -- nearly 35 years ago. Shaw was 9 years old, and had persuaded his parents to get a ...

CHICAGO - Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 ...

CHICAGO – Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 ...

The print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is no more, a fact that's already sending bibliophiles to mourn the death of print (even more) and digital types to cheer on Wikipedia (even more). As ...

So there really were people who bought encyclopedia sets from door-to-door salesmen. “The year was 1990, and I was 11,” wrote Sarah Sanderson. “I remember sitting in the living room with my parents ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the ...

Attention, doomsday preppers: forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe buy some encyclopedias instead. Now more than ever in our history, humans around the globe — especially those living in wealthy ...

Acharya Balkrishna's World Herbal Encyclopedia, a 109-volume work, merges traditional plant knowledge with modern science, documenting nearly 50,000 medicinal species. This comprehensive catalog, ...