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Frederick Converse Beach (1848-1918), an American photographer and publishing editor, took the next major step. As the director of ''Scientific American'', he assembled a team of several hundred editors and scholars to compile and publish a new 16-volume version of ''Americana'' in 1902, which eventually received a major revision to 30 volumes in 1918, which it held during the remaining years of it publication history. Grolier, a rival publishing company with its own encyclopedias, acquired the rights to ''Americana'' in 1948, and in turn Grolier would be sold to Scholastic in 2000. With the advent of the internet as a tool for research and learning, the sales of printed encyclopedias began to wane, which was especially true with the creation of [[Wikipedia]] in 2001. ''Encyclopedia Americana's'' final print edition was released in 2006.
Frederick Converse Beach (1848-1918), an American photographer and publishing editor, took the next major step. As the director of ''Scientific American'', he assembled a team of several hundred editors and scholars to compile and publish a new 16-volume version of ''Americana'' in 1902, which eventually received a major revision to 30 volumes in 1918, which it held during the remaining years of it publication history. Grolier, a rival publishing company with its own encyclopedias, acquired the rights to ''Americana'' in 1948, and in turn Grolier would be sold to Scholastic in 2000. With the advent of the internet as a tool for research and learning, the sales of printed encyclopedias began to wane, which was especially true with the creation of [[Wikipedia]] in 2001. ''Encyclopedia Americana's'' final print edition was released in 2006.
==Structure==
Like other similar works, ''Encyclopedia Americana'' was arranged in an alphabetical format, but not in individual volumes specific to a letter, such as in ''[[World Book]]''; this arrangement kept each volume uniform in size. It was also supplemented by annual year books, which were titled the ''Americana Annual''. The books were presented in either classic or contemporary bindings, with the images of the arms of the United States or a stylized oil lamp stamped onto the front cover and spine, depending on the binding and year of publication. In sheer size alone ''Americana'' rivals its major competitor, ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' as one of the largest bound and printed book sets in North America; the last edition of 2006 contained in excess of 45,000 articles written by 6,500 contributors, and has a bibliography of over 9,000 titles.
Most of the articles are signed, with the additional adage of the author's credentials accompanying the name; in this respect it differs from ''[[Collier's Encyclopedia]]'' in dispensing with a listing of all authors within the preface. Like ''Collier's'' and ''Britannica'', the contributors are experts within their fields of study or captains of industry, with many of them bearing a master's degree or higher. Many articles go into great detail, with some containing a count of several hundred thousand words; very few articles are five hundred words or less.
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