When I was a kid, it was common for door-to-door salesmen to pitch the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a way to help prepare kids for college. My parents were among the millions who took the bait and ...

Personally, as a kid, I loved Encyclopedia Britannica. My dad's 1960's edition had my favorite entry, the one for "Frog" showing the different layers of a dissected frog on transparent layers.

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the ... “I have young kids. I thought, there’s no way I’m not going to let them have that experience ...

Once regarded as a masterpiece, the high-water mark of collective erudition, the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ... constraints — material and commercial — that lurk in the ...

de la Merced used to read encyclopedias for fun as a child. For nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to show that ...

A public procurement process in summer 2012 resulted in a contract with Encyclopaedia Britannica for the provision of online digital reference content services. Britannica Online has more than ...