![]() ![]() The online editions have served more than 100 million students, Cauz said. The company has offered an online edition of the encyclopedia for the past 20 years, and now makes the majority of its revenue from online products and mobile applications. The print set can't bring that reliability because it gets obsolete so quickly and because it doesn't have all the material that is online." The value proposition in our case is to be a reliable source. "No one is expecting total comprehensiveness. "The perception of what is comprehensive has changed significantly," he said. Youths today often look at the 32-volume set and think that it seems too small, Cauz said. Such considerations, however, are "a generational issue," Cauz said. As a student, "the encyclopedia for me was the shortest time between doing homework and starting to play," Cauz said. The volumes, lined up authoritatively across a bookshelf, imparted a sense of gravitas about the material they contained and the mission of the company that published them. Even pricing-wise, the online edition makes better sense - at least for consumers: The basic subscription to the online version runs US$17 a year, or $1.99 a month, while the print set costs $1,400.Įven though the print edition hasn't been a significant form of revenue for the company for some time, Cauz admitted that the volumes are iconic for the company. The effort it takes to pack the most relevant of that information into book form is considerable for the company. The amount of material the company has amassed online has dwarfed the print edition. Over the past few years, the print edition accounted for less than 1 percent of Britannica's revenue. Britannica recommends you use the Index or the Propaedia to find Macropedia articles of interest.Britannica's move to stop printing encyclopedias is a telling moment in this point in history, when print is being superseded by websites and network-connected applications. Each volume’s articles are listed at the front of that book. The Macropedia contains around 700 articles, which are much more extensive than the thousands of articles in the Micropaedia. Macropedia : Knowledge in Depth ( vols 13-29). You’ll find “ How to Use the Micropaedia” at the beginning of each volume. Micropedia volumes contain around 65,000 short articles on specific persons, places, things, and ideas, arranged in alphabetical order. Micropedia : Ready Reference ( vols 1-12). It is strongly recommended in that article that you begin any subject search in the Index, rather than going directly into the Macropedia or Micropedia, because there are likely to be several entries on your subject. Among other things, it explains how to distinguish index references to Micropedia articles from references to the Macropedia. You’ll find the introduction “ How to Use the Index” at the beginning of either volume. See the Propaedia’s introduction, “ How to Use the Propaedia“. The Propaedia, or Outline of Knowledge ( vol 30), “is intended to serve as a topical guide to the contents of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, enabling the reader to carry out an orderly plan of reading in any field of knowledge or learning chosen for study in some depth”. The Unique 4-Part Structure of Encyclopedia Britannica Online ![]()
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