Encyclopedia Brittanica, the 244 year old company that started in Scotland, has announced that it is ceasing publication of its print edition, all 32 volumes, weighing 129lbs. This isn't the first the Internet has threatened to make irrelevant - and - extinct - the old-fashioned ink-on-paper way of learning. We can only hope demand for this venerable collection will surge before the last book is bound and an information institute is lost forever.

Article found in April 2012 edition of Macleans magazine