{"id":3330,"date":"2012-03-13T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/encyclopaedia-britannica-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T00:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:50:22","slug":"encyclopaedia-britannica-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/13\/encyclopaedia-britannica-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Encyclopaedia Britannica Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses\/?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20120314\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses<\/h1>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/julie-bosman\/\">JULIE BOSMAN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 480px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-bottom: 1em\" class=\"w480\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/03\/14\/business\/britannica-decoder\/britannica-decoder-blog480.jpg\" alt=\"A set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the shelves of the New York Public Library.\" height=\"320\" width=\"480\" id=\"100000001425684\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.223em; text-align: right; color: #909090; margin-bottom: 2px; display: block; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px\" class=\"credit\">\u00c1ngel Franco\/The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.<\/p>\n<p>Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in American homes will be discontinued, company executives said.<\/p>\n<p>In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age \u2014 and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia \u2014 Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, having the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the bookshelf was akin to a station wagon in the garage or a black-and-white Zenith in the den, a possession coveted for its usefulness and as a goalpost for an aspirational middle class. Buying a set was often a financial stretch, and many families had to pay for it in monthly installments.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses\/?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20120314\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses By\u00a0JULIE BOSMAN \u00c1ngel Franco\/The New York Times After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}