This article was originally published on May 5, 2013. Thanks to a door-to-door salesman, the Wonderland of Knowledge encyclopedia officially became part of our household in the mid-1960s. My parents ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

Last month, we discussed Wikipedia, and how the online encyclopedia, coupled with encyclopedias on compact discs, cut into the business of printed encyclopedia sets that were found in many American ...

A lulu of a lady sold my parents a set of the World Book Encyclopedia. Miss Lulu Goolsby to be exact. It changed my life living in rural Georgia as I did. I read that set from A to Z at least three ...