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Encyclopaedia Britannica, the world’s most famous of reference books, has decided to stop printing its 32-volume . The decision ends a 244-year history of the iconic printed . Instead, it will on its online version and try to fend competition from other web-based encyclopaedias. The company has recently launched a digital encyclopaedia for iPads and other tablet . Officials said the end of the physical books had been foreseen for many years, although they played the impact of Internet sites. Britannica president Jorge Cauz said: “This has to do with Wikipedia or Google…This has to do with the that now Britannica sells its digital to a large number of people.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica was first out in 1768 in Scotland. It moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1935. It sold door-to- for generations, selling more than seven million sets. Sales plummeted with the advent CD-ROM encyclopaedias and then the Internet. Web-based resources can be overnight, whereas it takes Britannica a to produce a new version. It was last printed in 2010 and there are still 4,000 sets , selling for $1,395 each. Mr Cauz admitted that: “In many doing a search in an online resource is a lot faster then standing up looking at the of the Britannica and then finding the appropriate volume.”