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The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopædia") is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes[1] and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia.
Taken together, the Micropædia and Macropædia comprise roughly 40 million words and 24,000 images.[14] The two-volume index has 2,350 pages, listing the 228,274 topics covered in the Britannica, together with 474,675 subentries under those topics.[13] The Britannica generally prefers British spelling over American;[13] for example, it uses colour (not color), centre (not center), and encyclopaedia (not encyclopedia). However, there are exceptions to this rule, such as defense rather than defence.[17][original research?] Common alternative spellings are provided with cross-references such as "Color: see Colour."
In March 2012, the company announced that the 2010 edition would be the last printed version. This was announced as a move by the company to adapt to the times and focus on its future using digital distribution.[22] The peak year for the printed encyclopaedia was 1990 when 120,000 sets were sold, but it dropped to 40,000 in 1996.[23] 12,000 sets of the 2010 edition were printed, of which 8,000 had been sold as of 2012[update].[24] By late April 2012, the remaining copies of the 2010 edition had sold out at Britannica's online store. As of 2016[update], a replica of Britannica's 1768 first edition is sold on the online store.[25]
Krishnan, himself an educator at New York University's Stern School of Business, believes in the "transformative power of education"[83] and set steering the company toward solidifying its place among leaders in educational technology and supplemental curriculum. Krishnan aimed at providing more useful and relevant solutions to customer needs, extending and renewing Britannica's historical emphasis on "utility",[84] which had been the watchword of its first edition in 1768.
Although Britannica was revealed as the more accurate encyclopedia, with fewer errors, Encyclopædia Britannica, Incorporated in its rebuttal called Nature's study flawed and misleading[104] and called for a "prompt" retraction. It noted that two of the articles in the study were taken from a Britannica yearbook and not the encyclopaedia, and another two were from Compton's Encyclopedia (called the Britannica Student Encyclopedia on the company's website).
It can be stated without fear of contradiction that the 15th edition of the Britannica accords non-Western cultural, social, and scientific developments more notice than any general English-language encyclopedia currently on the market.
The editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, the world standard in reference since 1768, present the Britannica Global Edition. Developed specifically to provide comprehensive and global coverage of the world around us, this unique product contains thousands of timely, relevant, and essential articles drawn from the Encyclopædia Britannica itself, as well as from the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, the Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions, and Compton's by Britannica. Written by international experts and scholars, the articles in this collection reflect the standards that have been the hallmark of the leading English-language encyclopedia for over 240 years.
In 2020, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. released the Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics. The encyclopedia was widely praised for bringing back the print format. It was Britannica's first encyclopedia for children since 1984.[143][144][145]
Founded in 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britannica was the brainchild of Colin Macfarquhar, a printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver. They also had an editor, William Smellie. "He was a very learned man," Pappas said, with (he added) a wonderful capacity for drinking.
A pioneer in digital learning since the 1980s, the company today serves the needs of students, lifelong learners, and professionals by providing curriculum products, language-study courses, digital encyclopedias, and professional readiness training through its extensive products.
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Encyclopedia Britannica is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, but at schools like Slippery Rock University few students are likely to recall ever opening an encyclopedia, let alone appreciating that the most venerated encyclopedia was first published in 1768. After all, Encyclopedia Britannica discontinued its printed editions in 2010 and the last edition on the shelf at SRU's Bailey Library is from 2007.
"By that time, it wasn't missed," said Lynn Hoffmann, SRU assistant professor of library and research services librarian. "Everyone uses the computer for a quick, initial inquiry. Students first reaction now is to Google a topic, but before (the internet) the first reaction was to go to an encyclopedia."
Although printed encyclopedias, particularly the most scholarly Encyclopedia Britannica, are rarely used, they once served as an essential reference tool at all levels of education, paving the way for the convenient and inexpensive digital sources.
"Encyclopedias were the original worldwide web," said Jason Hilton, associate professor secondary education and foundations of education. "There was a time when you couldn't connect to the rest of the world and encyclopedias gave you that insight and they contained what people knew about everything. Whereas now, with the world at your fingertips by using the internet, you don't need to spend time exploring encyclopedias."
Before the internet was available in homes in the mid to late 20th century, families purchased encyclopedias, often from door-to-door salesmen at exorbitant costs. According to Hoffman, not many families could afford Encyclopedia Britannica, which cost $1,400 for its final set in 2010 and only wealthy people or libraries carried it, but encyclopedias like Compton's or World Book were popular choices for families wishing to enhance their children's education.
Encyclopedia Britannica continues to produce content, describing itself as "a global digital media company with products that promote knowledge and learning," and asserting that the online encyclopedia "is very much alive -- more than ever, in fact, in many digital forms, online and on mobile devices."
However, there was a shift from the reliance on encyclopedias, which would publish volumes with corrections or updates each year, to open-source platforms like Wikipedia that could be corrected immediately. As Hilton notes, there's a tradeoff.
"One of the benefits of the encyclopedia was you knew who the experts were," Hilton said. "They could control it. Now, online, everyone's an expert. That opens the door for more people to have a say in what people know and people who pretend to be experts who aren't. That's a loss, but also a gain. It's a two-edged sword."
While college students now have access to a wide array of digital scholarly sources and online journals, the initial inquiry to research topics is done through internet search engines, leaving encyclopedias relics of the past.
According to Hoffman, Bailey Library once maintained four to five sets of encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia Britannica, that were ordered on a rotating basis but not every year to save costs, much like computers are replaced and upgraded every four years. Once a new encyclopedia was purchased for the reference section, the older version was offered through circulation before being completely removed from the shelves after another cycle.
Over 7 million sets of the bound books have been sold since 1768. Twelve thousand copies of the last set were printed, although 4,000 still remain in inventory. Britannica expects those remaining books to sell quickly.
The end of the bound encyclopedias, which lined many bookshelves for years, is certainly a sign of the times. As services like Wikipedia gain steam, the idea of using a book to look up the history of, say, a presidential candidate seems rather quaint.
Still, Cauz said the Britannica brand is strong in the digital space, but the focus goes beyond encyclopedia content. "Eighty-five percent of our revenue comes from non-encyclopedia content - mostly from instructional and e-learning solutions," he said. The company works with schools to provide its learning tools.
But of course, Wikipedia has taken over a large chunk of the digital encyclopedia market. "We have a very different offering than Wikipedia; our content is mostly created by experts and editors," Cauz said. "I understand Wikipedia has won the popularity contest, and Google loves Wikipedia in regard to search. We need to do something so we can be more prominent."
The encyclopædia was once very small, the first edition in 1768 only had 3 books. Slowly it became bigger. The last edition, the 15th, started in 1974, has 29 books, plus two indexes. It includes an extra book called Propædia, to classify knowledge. The 29 books and made up of a Macropædia and a Micropædia. The Macropædia is a larger one, with more detailed articles that can be as long as 300 pages, made up of 17 books, while the Micropædia is the smaller one with many much shorter articles that are usually less than 750 words. The Micropædia is used for fast-checking, but for more detailed information, people have to use the Macropædia. Each book is very big, more than 1,000 pages per book. Every year, an update book was published. The last yearbook was for 2018, published in 2017.
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