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Originally Posted by Tony1988
...It was the internet and wiki that killed them. ...
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Hardly. The Internet and wiki were hardly the last handful of soil tossed on the grave; much less the last nail in the coffin.
The CD-ROM killed the print encyclopedias across be board. By the time the Internet became commonly available print sales were already only a fraction of their peak; sales going to electronic versions instead. True, Wikipedia may well be a major reason why the EB publishers have chosen to stop beating a dead horse, but the horse has been dead for some time and died of other causes.