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Sad news for people who like big books, or who like talking about how much they like big books: Encyclopaedia Britanica is stopping print production. After 244 years, the 32-volume, 129-pound 2010 set will be the company’s last as it shifts gears to its online (but un-free) encyclopedias.
That other (free) online encyclopedia’s entry about Encyclopaedia Britanica has not yet been updated with today’s news. Instead, the entry’s final paragraph is a 2009 quote from the managing director of Encyclopaedia Britanica:
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