By Michael J. de la Merced Michael J. 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 ...

Once upon a time, Encyclopedia Britannica was an authority to be reckoned ... The anxious feeling that “no one is reading our work any more” must regularly seize the scribblers who work ...