After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
13th March 2012
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 homes will be discontinued, company executives said.
And Diderot turns to dust at last.