Its editor, Melanie Grant, described how difficult it was to choose just 300 designers, makers and other jewelry-related ...

At an early age, Tavares Strachan noticed there was a lot missing from his family's encyclopedia. Today, the artist searches ...

Before he emigrated over a decade ago, the Reg FOSS desk was British, and as such knows of some loose equivalents to ...

First Street and other numbered streets in Louisville were designed to be perpendicular to the Ohio River. Here's how those ...

The world received word yesterday that the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica would stop producing hardbound, paper copies of their venerable reference. Actually, they stopped in 2010 but didn ...

Although the term "encyclopedia" is now almost synonymous with Wikipedia, it's refreshing to see such a sizable reference printed on paper. So I bought one, and I'll tell you why.

M icrosoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in ...

While it still offers an online edition of its encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Britannica’s biggest business today is selling online education software to schools and ...

The obvious question is why does World Book still exist? Edwards wrote that Tom Evans, the encyclopedia's editor-in-chief, told him, "Because there is still a demand!" ...

The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. By Michael J. de la Merced Michael J ...