After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses

[Silver Seren]

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... e-presses/

Rather sad, really. The demise of print as a whole is a sad, though clearly inevitable, change. Though I don't think Wikipedia is wholly to blame as the article tries to state. Partially, of course, but there's also their own business model to look at ($35 million a year from the online service verses $$11.2 million from book sales).

And considering that Britannica.com was launched in the first place back in 1999, long before Wikipedia, because print sales had been declining, I think it's more apt to blame the internet as a whole and the change of a culture medium. Why look in a book when you can just look it up online? It's faster and allows you to get more than just one view on the subject.

[Yash]

Technology happened.

Yeah it sucks that they have to stop printing, but it's apart of life, IMO.

[Luca Fox]

What's sad about inferior technology being put to rest?

[Silver Seren]

What's sad about inferior technology being put to rest?

I guess more nostalgia than anything else. Especially for something that has been so influential in the recording of human knowledge.