de la Merced used to read encyclopedias for fun as a child. For nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to show that ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica could soon go public at a valuation ... Until 2012 when printing ended, the company’s books served as the oldest continuously published, English-language encyclopedias ...