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Encyclopaedia Britannica goes out of print, enters digital world

By Tarunkumar Singhal, Raman Jokhakar, Chartered Accountants
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The oldest English-language encyclopaedia in print is moving solely into the digital age.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said on Tuesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. The flagship, 32-volume printed edition, available every two years, was sold for INR85,947. An online subscription costs around INR4,297 per year and the company recently launched a set of apps ranging between INR122 and INR306 per month. The company said it will keep selling print editions until the current stock of around 4,000 sets ran out. It first flirted with digital publishing in the 1970s, published a version for computers in 1981 for LexisNexis subscribers and first posted to the Internet in 1994.

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