Encyclopedia editor finds his 'Holy Grail' with Encarta
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Back in the days when he worked on print encyclopedias, Gary Alt and his colleagues would toil all year on the new edition and send it off to the printer. But months would then pass before readers saw the results of their efforts.
"It was a big press run, and in the interim the world had kept on spinning," Alt recalls. "The day they opened that box and took those books out, it was already out of date."