(Bloomberg) -- Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., the publisher of the namesake encyclopedia and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is looking to raise fresh capital to repay debts of its Swiss owner ...

If you were born in the 90s, you probably remember Encyclopaedia Britannica—those iconic knowledge-packed books that seemed to have answers to everything, long before Google or Wikipedia existed.

Once upon a time, Encyclopedia Britannica was an authority to be reckoned with. From its famous first edition over two centuries ago to its fabled eleventh edition to the one from the post-WWII ...