![]() ![]() My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. It first flirted with digital publishing in the 1970s, published a version for computers in 1981 for LexisNexis subscribers and first posted to the Internet in 1994.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: It is the latest move Encyclopaedia Britannica has made to expand its Internet reference services and move farther into educational products. ![]() RECOMMENDED: The 10 most intriguing tablets of 2012 The company said it will keep selling print editions until the current stock of around 4000 sets ran out. An online subscription costs around $70 per year and the company recently launched a set of apps ranging between $1.99 and $4.99 per month. The flagship, 32-volume printed edition, available every two years, was sold for $1400. ![]() In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, the oldest English-language encyclopedia still in print is moving solely into the digital age.The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said on Wednesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. ![]()
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