2012-03-14

Book is dying

 Milestone

This is the turning-point of the life cycle of product "book". After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses.

 

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. [more...]




http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/britannica-digital-milestones/