I think what you might be remembering is that they used to sell them via a sales force who went door to door. They announced a few years back that they were stopping that.
------Original Message------ From: Yaroslav M. Blanter Sender: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List ReplyTo: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books Sent: 13 Mar 2012 22:58 On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +0000, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought they had already stopped... I'm sure I remember an > announcement like this a year or two ago... does anyone know what it > is I'm remembering? > No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I am confusing things. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Neil / QuiteUnusual@Wikibooks _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l