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Pleasanton, CA Learn more | Spread the Word We believe in Janet. www.HelpingJanet.com www.ThrivingLivesFoundation.org PLEASANTON | 900 Main St 925.251.1111 LIVERMORE | 2300 First St, Suite 316 925.583.1111 Page 2ÊUÊApril 13, 2012ÊUÊPleasanton Weekly AROUND GRAHAM-HITCH www.PleasantonRealEstate.comwww.PlleasanttonReR alEstatet .com MORTUARY PLEASANTON Dignified Care & Compassionate Service BY JEB BING Since 1891 Happy memories NavigatingNavigSating youryour Owayway throughtthroughL thethe realreal D estateestate processprocess isis difficultdifficult today.todaay. leafing through GinaGina has beenbeen sellingselling realreal estateestate inin PleasantonPleasanton for 16 yearsyears andand understandsundn erstands encyclopedias Restaurants fter 244 years, the Encyclo- thethe intricaciesintricacies of thethe marketmarket andandn thethe Shopping pedia Britannica is going out difficultiesdifficulties buyerbuyer andand sellersseellers face.face. Events & More Aof print. Not out of business, but certainly out of sight on library Give Gina a call today ytoens to ensure enssure that shelves where I’m sure many of Advance Planning your next move is a smooth one. us were weaned on research from Made Easy the time we started submitting JEB BING Pleasanton is on Facebook! at “Living in Pleasanton” reports in grade school to those Pleasanton librarian Merry Luskin Call Deanna for a FREE late stressed nights in the college guides Ira Prajogo (left) and Audrey consultation. In-home library as we wrapped up a crucial Sulistio, 10, through one of the 22 visits available. term paper that was due the next volumes of World Book encyclopedia day. For my family, Encyclopedia the library keeps in its children’s sec- Britannica was too expensive, so tion. With Encyclopedia Britannica Broker Associate 4167 First Street, Pleasanton Gina Piper we made do with Grolier’s Book of ending its print edition, World Book Knowledge or similar sets of books is the only major encyclopedia left in 925-846-5624 that occasionally were offered as the U.S. with both print and online Crematory Privately Owned 925 462 9175 specials at supermarkets. They were editions. & Operated pretty to look at on the bookshelf FD#429 [email protected] DRE# 01201349 with their fake gold leaf binding but the pictures and type size were sets. Of course, I’m in the print too small for easy reference. business and don’t want to see When we acquired a set of it disappear into digital thin World Book encyclopedias, the air. Take the local bookstores. page-thumbing pace picked up There’s still something special along with the quality of the mate- about browsing through an rial. Still not the Cadillac of ency- aisle of books. It’s just not the clopedias, World Book was a close same walking through a section competitor to Britannica with a of packaged CDs or computer far better sales force and monthly screens. Many of the reference payment plan that more parents books that had prominent space could afford. So when I stopped in these stores have taken the at the Pleasanton Library the other worst hit with the rise of digital. day for a last look at Encyclopedia Britannica’s president Jorge Cauz Britannica, I was surprised to learn said recently that the encyclope- that the champion of those kinds dia’s print sets for its final 2010 of publications has long since been edition represented less than 1% replaced by World Book, with a of the company’s total sales. The jazzy cover for the entire set of print set is an icon of Encyclope- books that fill a couple of shelves dia Britannica, but it doesn’t do in the children’s section. justice to how much Britannica When Encyclopedia Britannica has changed over the years, Cauz announced that it was ceasing said. Even the online version of publication of its iconic multi- the encyclopedia, which was first volume books sets, there was a bit published in 1994, represents only of sadness that this could mark 15% of the company’s revenue, the end of an era in print litera- with the other 85% these days ture. Today, we easily Google for coming from education products, information with answers long online learning tools, curriculum before we could even get the right products and more. Britannica volume off the shelf. World Book posts its 22-vol- Its online competitor, Wikipedia, ume print edition on DVD-ROM has even more data, graphs, maps, discs, too, with even videos and charts and photos, with references sound clips to make it livelier. in most listings to additional data Its deluxe edition also includes with the click on the highlighted homework wizards to help in a subject. Still, there’s something student’s research, a full-length nostalgic about turning the pages video set, simulations and anima- of a printed encyclopedia as I tions. I’m not sure how all that did the other night while leafing would work on a laptop in a quiet through a World Book. Unlike college library during finals time online searches, I kept stopping as or how much creative inspiration I used to do to look at photos and goes into a term paper today to topics on the pages I was turning. make it different from the same There’s always something new that search effort going on at the next you don’t see in online searches table. Obviously, with the advent that take you right to your chosen of the Internet and Wikipedia, the topic. encyclopedia’s days are numbered Few readers are probably as so enjoy holding a print edition worked up as I’ve been over the of World Book at the Pleasanton demise of these printed book library while you can. N About the Cover Dominic Alioto works as a bat boy during the second inning of Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. The Giants beat the Texas Rangers, 11-7. Photo ©2011 S.F. Giants. Cover design by Kristin Herman. Vol. XIII, Number 13 Pleasanton WeeklyÊUÊApril 13, 2012ÊU Page 3 please note, those fuzzy Streetwise things ASKED AT MONTGOMERY FIELD, SAN DIEGO are not for dusting. Why do you fly? James Kapenas That’s our job. Pilot Go ahead, put down that feather duster, back away slowly, and call Heritage Freedom and accountability.