Talk:World Book Encyclopedia

message: :Most schools have a copy of the World Book encyclopedia.
I took the above line out because I would like to see something backing up the statement. Is it referring to most schools in the world? Or most schools in North America or Europe? The extensive list of sales reps around the world  suggests it is widespread as well as high-selling, but I think the statement needs either factual backup or qualifying. Hope someone can help. -- Sam
I don't think most British schools have one. We're more likely to have Britannica. Secretlondon 21:18, Oct 26, 2003 (UTC)
Most schools in India don't have any encyclopedias MCCAGE (talk) 20:29, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have a set of the world book and on the front page it clearly says 1924. wikipedia says none were made during that year and I'm wondering if its from '23 or '25 then. Any input would be great
: My 1965 edititon was printed in 1964.  Perhaps that is the reason.  Bubba73 (talk), 00:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mine's from 1924 too so this is really confusing me 213 MxzK →→→ 22:46, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1924 edition of world book 

message: If I'm not mistaken, Apple includes World Book with all consumer computers, not just iBooks. --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 05:18, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly, Apple seems to have discontinued, or at the very least, muted this practice — World Book 2006 is not currently shipping with the Dual Core iMac. This may be due to Rosetta incompatibilities, but such a reason seems unlikely since Software MacKiev has already released the appropriate Universal Binary Updates. Regardless, we should probably qualify the remarks in the article with a "virtually all" or "until recently". ~ Ross (ElCharismo) 15:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  CD included with Apple computers 

message: I actually have the G volume from the 1959 set. From the front page: 
THE WORLD BOOK 
ENCYCLOPEDIA
In Eighteen Volumes
and Reading and Study Guide
AppleMacReporter 01:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By the early 1970s the Reading and Study Guide was Volume 22. Naaman Brown (talk) 13:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1959 World Book 

message: Through the fifties, sixties and at least the early seventies World Book was published by Field Educational Corporation.  This was owned by the family of Marshall Field. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.239.167.214 (talk) 18:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary 

message: Some of the references for statements such as "it is also the most up-to-date encyclopedia sold, with 20% of its pages revised each year" are sections of the World Book website. These references are patently not independent and as a result they are not suitable for supporting such claims. I've edited the text to make the sources of these claims more clear add added some citation needed flags. Surely there are some recent reviews of World Book which can be cited? --Nick Dowling 10:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Comments by hard-banned user removed.
Being the most up-to-date encyclopædia isn't a policy, it's a claim that needs to be substantiated, and the publisher's claims aren't sufficient for that.
And before you ask yet again, no, I don't know the work; it's pretty well unknown here, so far as I'm aware.  Moreover, I don't find much use for general reference works.  None of that is relevant; we're talking about the principles of article writing, for which one needs to know nothing about the subject.
At the moment the article is deeply deficient.  For example, it starts with a marketing claim, which no article should do, and the whole piece is full of unsubstantiated (and parochial) statements about its significance.  I've added an NPoV tag, in the hope that we'll get some more attention from a wider range of editors. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 11:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Predictably, User:67.165.216.16 simply reverted my edits, including the removal of the NPoV template.  If he or she continues in this way, it will lead to an editing block. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 15:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anon user was blocked. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 21:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some references are World Book publicity material

message: There has ought to be a photograph of the most recent World Book (print edition) in this article.
:I don't know that there ought to be one, but if you want one, you only have to take a photograph and up-load it. --Mel Etitis  (Talk) 16:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph 

message: Much more detailed information about World Book and its history and origins can be found here: http://www.answers.com/topic/world-book-inc. Some of that info really should be factored into the Wikipedia article (as that link puts Wikipedia article to shame). Softlavender (talk) 05:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Detailed information 

message: There has been an apparent edit war over the design description as "populist."  This term has a political meaning.  Please consult the article, populist, before you use the term. Thank you, Dogru144 (talk) 15:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's a big mistake. "Popular" might make sense, but it's hardly necessary.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 00:09, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Populist?

message: The link's broken. Interchangeable|talk to me 16:46, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 4 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I noticed that there is absolutely no mention of "The World Book Encyclopedia Cyclo•teacher Learning Aid."
When my parents bought our family's first World Book in 1964, it came with the Childcraft set and the Cyclo•teacher -- which I still have in working order!
The Cyclo•teacher is a unique educational, and fun, learning device.  It's a manually operated machine much like a ViewMaster.  There are circular two-sided inserts covering Study Skills, Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Identification.  Each insert (or "Cycle" or "Wheel") has 30 inquiries (15 per side) and there are answer inserts to figure out the answer and write it down.  You then slide a lever and the inserts rotate so that the answer appears and you can check to see if what you figured & wrote is correct.  Twenty yellow (12) and green (8) blank wheels were also provided in order to customize for certain abilities, levels, and interests.  Each section starts out rather simplistically and the wheels increase in difficulty the higher you go on the wheels' numbers.  The wheels are color-coded for ease of use.  The Study Skills section is 'light' green and has 28 wheels.  The Mathematics section is pink and has 114 wheels.  The remaining sections are -- 
Language Arts     pale blue     36 wheels 
Social Studies     orange     36 wheels 
Science (identification, terminology, & vocabulary)     light brown     36 wheels
 
Identification     yellow     18 wheels 
Plus 2 wheels on Beginning Numbers, 6 wheels on counting like items, 9 wheels on Using Letter in Words (a form of spelling and identification), and 4 wheels on Beginning Manuscript Writing (forming upper & lower case letters by printing -- NOT cursive).
Though most wheels are dated 1964, there are several dated 1962.
To me, this "Learning Aid" is a very important part of the encyclopedia; and, as such, I think the "Cyclo•teacher" should have its own section in the World Book entry.  2600:8800:784:1E00:C23F:D5FF:FEC5:89B6 (talk) 07:54, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I  would like to add a section for Cyclo-Teacher, as I too remember having one as a kid in the 70's. Unfortunately there is not a whole lot of source material for research. Even the official WorldBook web site does not have any mention of it in their 'About Us' page. I would have like to have been able to find out when the first and last edition of Cyclo-Teachers came out as well as any information about its developers and contributors. I know it was probably around the mid 60's to early 70's but I would like to accurately date it if I was to make an entry. For now, I would just suggest adding an entry in their 'Associated Publishing Projects' or even create a separate list to include non-book related products which this would fall under.
--Deano252 (talk) 14:56, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

text: A "50th Annivery" phrase was printed in gold on the 'device.'
And though I did not state it in my original entry above, I still have the original with all of the original stuff in pristine working condition (the storage case is a little worse for wear). 2600:8800:785:8500:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 23:11, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyclo•teacher 

message: There's a slight mismatch in the 22 September anon edit: they give the price as $1999 as of 2022, but the 2022 encyclopedia is $999. Pre-orders for the 2023 encyclopedia are $1999. So, not actually wrong, but confusing, but probably also not worth changing because of the required wordiness. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:13, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date/price