Generations have used encyclopedias to learn about various topics. The voluminous books carry information on subjects: they range from world leaders, important events, to ideas encapsulated in small ...

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In an age before Google, parents pinned hopes for their children’s future onto promises made on their doorsteps by encyclopedia salesmen. Denis Boyles, the author of a history of the Encyclopaedia ...

Irwin Stambler, an aeronautical engineer whose love of music inspired him to write some of the earliest and most flavorful encyclopedias on pop music, has died at the age of 92. Stambler died Feb. 10 ...

The last doors slammed shut on encyclopedia salesmen years ago. Beginning in the early 1990s, many parents decided that instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars for a weighty set of books, the ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica -- which has been in print continuously since its beginnings in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768 -- is finally abandoning print and moving exclusively online. The current ...

(AP/CBS) Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that after 244 years, it will put an end to the print edition and be available only in digital form. Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it ...