37 Facts About Encyclopaedia Britannica

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In 1933, the Britannica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted, with every article updated on a schedule.

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In March 2012, Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc announced it would no longer publish printed editions and would focus instead on the online version.

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica articles are found in the and, which encompass 12 and 17 volumes, respectively, each volume having roughly one thousand pages.

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Information can be found in the Encyclopaedia Britannica by following the cross-references in the and ; however, these are sparse, averaging one cross-reference per page.

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The Britannica generally prefers British spelling over American; for example, it uses colour, centre (not center), and encyclopaedia (not encyclopedia).

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British Children's Encyclopaedia Britannica edited by John Armitage was issued in London in 1960.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica introduced the Children's Encyclopaedia Britannica to the US market in 1988, aimed at ages seven to 14.

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My First Encyclopaedia Britannica is aimed at children ages six to 12, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica Discovery Library is for children aged three to six.

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Compton's by Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 2007, incorporating the former Compton's Encyclopedia, is aimed at 10- to 17-year-olds and consists of 26 volumes and 11, 000 pages.

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Since 1938, Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc has published annually a Book of the Year covering the past year's events.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica publishes several specialized reference works, such as Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the Life and Works of the Bard.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online is a website with more than 120, 000 articles and is updated regularly.

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On 14 September 2010, Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc announced a partnership with mobile phone development company Concentric Sky to launch a series of iPhone products aimed at the K-12 market.

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On 20 July 2011, Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc announced that Concentric Sky had ported the Encyclopaedia Britannica Kids product line to Intel's Intel Atom-based Netbooks and on 26 October 2011 that it had launched its encyclopedia as an iPad app.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Insights was available as a Firefox extension but this was taken down due to a code review issue.

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Print version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica has 4, 411 contributors, many eminent in their fields, such as Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, astronomer Carl Sagan, and surgeon Michael DeBakey.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica began his career there in 1934, eventually earning the positions of treasurer, vice president, and chief financial officer in his 58 years with the company, before retiring in 1992.

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In January 1996, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was purchased from the Benton Foundation by billionaire Swiss financier Jacqui Safra, who serves as its current chair of the board.

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Nevertheless, from the 9th edition onwards, the Britannica was widely considered to have the greatest authority of any general English-language encyclopaedia, especially because of its broad coverage and eminent authors.

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The print version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was significantly more expensive than its competitors.

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Since the early 1990s, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has faced new challenges from digital information sources.

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In rapidly changing fields such as science, technology, politics, culture and modern history, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has struggled to stay up to date, a problem first analysed systematically by its former editor Walter Yust.

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In 2013, the President of Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that after 244 years, the encyclopedia would cease print production and all future editions would be entirely digital.

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica contains 100, 000 articles and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, and offers Primary and Secondary School editions.

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The key differences between the two lie in accessibility; the model of participation they bring to an encyclopedic project; their respective style sheets and editorial policies; relative ages; the number of subjects treated; the number of languages in which articles are written and made available; and their underlying economic models: unlike Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia is a not-for-profit and is not connected with traditional profit- and contract-based publishing distribution networks.

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Since the 3rd edition, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has enjoyed a popular and critical reputation for general excellence.

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Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition—except for the science articles—and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Encyclopaedia Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.

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However, the Britannica has been lauded as the least biased of general Encyclopaedias marketed to Western readers and praised for its biographies of important women of all eras.

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica has staunchly defended a scientific approach to cultural topics, as it did with William Robertson Smith's articles on religion in the 9th edition, particularly his article stating that the Bible was not historically accurate.

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Present owner of Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc is Jacqui Safra, a Brazilian billionaire and actor.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica has been issued in 15 editions, with multi-volume supplements to the 3rd and 4th editions.

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The history of the Encyclopaedia Britannica can be divided into five eras, punctuated by changes in management, or reorganization of the dictionary.

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Under Mortimer J Adler, the Britannica sought not only to be a good reference work and educational tool, but to systematize all human knowledge.

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In 1996, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was bought by Jacqui Safra at well below its estimated value, owing to the company's financial difficulties.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus only on the online edition and other educational tools.

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In 2020, Encyclopædia Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc released the Encyclopaedia Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica was dedicated to the reigning British monarch from 1788 to 1901 and then, upon its sale to an American partnership, to the British monarch and the President of the United States.

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