France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia: The 2008 edition of Quid, France's favourite encyclopaedia, has been cancelled by its publisher for lack of interest. The annual sales of the 2,000-page tome, which reached more than 400,000 in the mid-1990s, collapsed to just over 100,000 last year.
The book's publisher, Robert Laffont, says the whole concept of the print encyclopedia can no longer compete with the free information available on the internet.
