![]() It is the latest move Encyclopaedia Britannica has made to expand its Internet reference services and move farther into educational products. ![]() RECOMMENDED: The 10 most intriguing tablets of 2012 ![]() The company said it will keep selling print editions until the current stock of around 4000 sets ran out. An online subscription costs around $70 per year and the company recently launched a set of apps ranging between $1.99 and $4.99 per month. The flagship, 32-volume printed edition, available every two years, was sold for $1400. In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, the oldest English-language encyclopedia still in print is moving solely into the digital age.The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said on Wednesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online.
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