Re: Vanishing Print Encyclopedias

[Dorothy Tissair <ricflair@MAIL2.NAI.NET>]

This was a topic of concern and discussion in my Reference class last year.
We had not yet heard of the stopping of publication, but the difference in
price between the CD-ROM version of Britannica ($100) and the print version
of the same ($1500+) has to have effected the marketability of print.  I am
sure that print sales for home use, where the price was much higher than
school and library cost have vaporized.  Libraries received a lower price to
encourage home sales.  No home sales mean the publishers don't need the
product placement in libraries.  Never mind the fact that fewer school and
small public libraries when presented with the CD-ROM price, not to mention
the perpetually updated online option as low as $150/yr., would opt to buy
print.  You can buy a lot of other books and still have money for printer
paper with $1400.

Dorothy E.Tissair, M.L.S.
Still looking for work
Old Saybrook, CT
ricflair@nai.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Carlton Martz <cmartz@EEE.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 11:56 PM
Subject: Vanishing Print Encyclopedias


> I spoke with a Grolier rep. last week who said their print Academic
> American Ency. as well as the print Britannica are no longer being
> published. Is the rush to CD-ROM and online encyclopedias all that great
> for children learning to read given all the multimedia distractions on the
> electronic versions?  Carl Martz, Librarian Yucaipa High School, Yucaipa
CA
> cmartz@eee.org
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