Encyclopaedia Britannica could soon go public at a valuation over $1 billion after pivoting into an AI education company. Rod Lawton/PhotoPlus Magazine/Future via Getty Once an icon of the 20th ...

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 ...