Encyclopaedia Britannica out of print

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mudskipper replied

14 March 2012, 19:51
Mother bought a set when we were teenagers. Sold them about 10 years ago - stuck them in local paper for £20. Sold straight away and had dozens of calls, so no idea what we could have got for them.
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EternalOptimist replied

14 March 2012, 14:17
I spent a few hours emptying book shelves this week, to make space in the spare room.

All those windows,vba,vb etc books that cost me a fortune - all gone.

I Clavdivs, Spartacus by Howard Fast, Asimov - all gone

the web is the future

you heard it here first
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oracleslave replied

14 March 2012, 14:16
Originally posted by zeitghost

I was sorely tempted to buy a 1970s edition from a charity shoppe, but managed to control myself.

Get married instead, wives know everything.
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DimPrawn replied

14 March 2012, 14:12
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Wikipedia by now must make E B look like a shopping list, length-wise. A printed version with volumes on a shelf a-la E B would probably be a hundred yards long or more. And of course, unlike E B, they can keep it bang up to date.

Difference being you could trust the content of E B having at least some factual basis.
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OwlHoot replied

14 March 2012, 14:10
Wikipedia by now must make E B look like a shopping list, length-wise. A printed version with volumes on a shelf a-la E B would probably be a hundred yards long or more. And of course, unlike E B, they can keep it bang up to date.
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northernladuk replied

14 March 2012, 14:01
Yet another thread with nothing but a link to a newspage we are probably all more than well aware of already. Bravo.
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Sysman replied

14 March 2012, 13:58
A fellow student of mine flogged EB during her summer holidays. It was a bit of a scam really, as they sold to poor families who probably didn't have a cat in hell's chance of paying for it, on the grounds of giving their kids an education.

When I looked at their online version a few years ago, it was so Javascript laden it was virtually unusable.

You could get decent info out of it if you scraped it with JS turned off though
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DimPrawn replied

14 March 2012, 13:51
At least this is still in print.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fly-Fishing-...1733017&sr=1-1
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zeitghost started a topic Encyclopaedia Britannica out of print

14 March 2012, 13:49
Encyclopaedia Britannica out of print

Encyclopaedia Britannica Ceases Publication - Yahoo! News UK

Oh well, it was nice whilst it lasted.
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