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What a dream come true, I can't wait to show my Daddy! According to The Chronicle for Higher Education's Education-technology news from around the web (which took its news from TechCrunch reports) the reason for bloggers being offered free access to the on-line Encyclopaedia Britannica are the publisher's fears [of] being nudged into irrelevance by the proliferation of free online reference sources.

Let me report to my fellow bloggers that I only used a few minutes to read over the material and apply at http://britannicanet.com/.  I should hear back within 24 hours and if accepted, watch out Wikipedia! Considering all my on-line reading (dare I call it researching?) and linking, I'll surely help address the concern of [f]or every page viewed on Brittanica.com, 184 pages are viewed on Wikipedia, or 3.8 billion v. 21 million page views per month. Show me the widgets!

But I'm not sure how many more people will buy the 32-volume set as a result of such efforts.  I think the annual online subscription would be more reasonable.  But does this now leave me on the doorstep of Wikipedia (which is compared with other material, I particularly appreciate the links to primary sources)?  Such is the changing of the generational guard as I must question how many green-backs our family will spare as Earth Day is every day, but especially today 

And what does Reduce, reuse, recycle, and conserve have to say regarding all those classic (and only slightly older) paper copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica?