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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ok_Company4436 on 2024-05-05 19:18:15.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise.
In a nod to our present digital age, World Book also offers its encyclopedia as a subscription service through the web.
A World Book rep told Quartz in 2019 that the print encyclopedia sold mostly to schools, public libraries, and homeschooling families.
“World Book has a loyal following of librarians who understand the importance of a general reference encyclopedia in print form, accessible to all.”
At a time when most information comes to us for free online (with strings attached, of course), it’s easy to have sticker shock at the $1,199 retail price for the 2023 edition of World Book, although shoppers might occasionally find it for as low as $799 on Amazon (to compare, the online subscription costs $250 per year).
I know it may seem weird to prefer the print edition since you can get the same content in the online version in a space-saving and portable format.
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