and then we will see how smart you are.
Via Instapundit I learned this morning that
[a]fter 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.
The New York Times story includes this quote:
“It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a company based in Chicago, said in an interview. “Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.”
Instapundit's notice includes this:
But reader Daniel McAfee sees a marketing opportunity: “They should market the current printed version as ‘The Sunflare Edition’ … Wikipedia’s not much use after the power goes out, now is it?”I am way ahead of Mr. McAfee! My
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