TORONTO – It’s an end of an era. Encyclopaedia Britannica says it will end its print edition of its
collection of knowledge.
The book-form has been in print since it was first published in Scotland in 1768. The Chicago-based company says it will continue to offer digital versions of the encyclopaedia.
Global News takes a look at the facts and figures surrounding Encyclopaedia Britannica.
244: Number of years print editions of Britannica have been in publication
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4,000: Number of contributors in the 2010 Britannica print edition
40: Number of pages devoted to the disease of horses in the 1768 print edition
2010: Year of the last print edition of Britannica
14,000,000: Number, in dollars, the final hardcover 32-volume set costs
1990: Year sales of Britannica peaked
70: Annual fee, in dollars, for an online Britannica subscription
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129: Weight of the last print edition, in pounds
3: Average number of errors in each Britannica article, according to a widely publicized study published in the journal Nature in 2005
110: Number of Nobel Prize winners who have written for Britannica
3,700,000,000,000: Number of words Britannica has published since 1768
40,000,000,000: Average number of words per each Britannica print edition
98: Number of times “bloodletting,” the withdrawal of little quantities of blood from a patient, was suggested as a cure for illness in Britannica first print edition.
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