[2b2k] 14 reasons why the Britannica failed on paper
Joho the Blog 2012-03-20
Summary:
In the straight-up match between paper and Web, the Encyclopedia Britannica lost. This was as close to a sure thing as we get outside of the realm of macro physics and Meryl Streep movies. The EB couldn’t cover enough: 65,000 topics compared to the almost 4M in the English version of Wikipedia. Topics had to [...]