"We're a very different company from 20 or 30 years ago. "We're digital, we're mobile, and we're social," Cauz said. As Kenneth Kister said in the 1994 Kister's Best Encyclopedias, "It can be stated without fear of contradiction that the 15th edition of the Britannica accords non-Western cultural, social, and scientific developments more notice than any general English-language encyclopedia currently on the market."Ĭauz said numerous digital versions of the encyclopedia are widely available, continuously updated and significantly larger than the content in the printed encyclopedia. Love the encyclopedia or not, many will miss the giant tomes of knowledge whether we still find the convenience of the online edition pleasing. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The majority of the encyclopedia has been broken down into the following topics: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannicas editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. There was a book in 1964 detailing the failings by Harvey Einbinder, an American author and physicist, called "The Myth of the Britannica." Even more out-of-date than the print articles, the bibliography of the print editions has been found to be grossly out-dated and lacking in substance. However, the encyclopedia's print version has been criticized in the past for being outdated.Įven with early authors of the encyclopedia such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, the critics thought it lacked expertise.
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