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	Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Encyclopædia Britannica (properly spelt with æ, the ae-ligature) is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia, first published in 1768-1771 as Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled upon a new plan.
		The first Britannica was the brainchild of Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, who published the reference work pseudonymously as a "Society of Gentlemen." The editor was scholar William Smellie, then twenty-eight years old, who was offered £200 to produce the Encyclopaedia in 100 parts and three volumes.
		In January 1996, the Britannica was purchased by billionaire Swiss financier Jacob Safra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Britannica (2081 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica, feeling that they had a stranglehold on the market and showing strong profits (sales of the complete Britannica were priced between US$1,500 and US$2,200), turned Microsoft down.
		Britannica hoped that including the CD would entice buyers to stay with the brand while keeping the sales force happy.
		By the end of 1996, Britannica was in serious trouble and was purchased by Jacqui Safra for a fraction of its book value.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Encyclopedia_Britannica (1006 words)

	1911 Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910-1911) represents "the sum of human knowledge" at the beginning of the 20th century; indeed, it was advertised as such.
		The edition is still often regarded as the greatest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, with many articles being up to 10 times the length of those in other encyclopædias.
		The Eleventh Edition was a notable reorganization and rewriting of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was first published in three volumes in 1768.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica (786 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Corporate Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica reserves the right to expel users and prevent their further access to this Site or the Web site of any affiliate of Britannica, for violating these Terms of Use or the law, and the right to remove such communications which are abusive, illegal or disruptive.
		Neither Britannica nor any other publisher or news service will be liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors, or omissions in any news material or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.
		Britannica reserves the right to object to or have removed any link that is determined by Britannica in its sole judgement to be inappropriate, inconsistent with the Site's image and reputation, or otherwise creates an undue burden on the Site or on Britannica.
	corporate.britannica.com /termsofuse.html (3311 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Software: Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD Edition and FREE Britannica ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica, which doesn't have a "UK edition" but a good encyclopedia should not need country-specific editions, was published in Scotland for its first nine editions (120 years) then jointly London and New York until the 1940s.
		Britannica organises the information into sections on many pages and includes every major historical event that has ever occurred, with plenty of navigation tools for moving around the article and reading related material, with many tables and graphs of statistical data (missing from Encarta).
		Britannica does have a sluggish interface, but this might not be surprising due to the huge amount of information which it is making available to you (vastly bigger than Encarta).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1593390858 (2374 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica (UK) Ltd - Company Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Encyclopædia Britannica was born in 18th century Scotland amid the great intellectual ferment known as the Scottish Enlightenment.
		According to one chronicler of Britannica history, Edinburgh in the mid-1700s was "a city on the verge of a golden age, a centre of learning and a home of writers, thinkers, and philosophers, wags, wits, and teachers."
		Britannica First Edition Replica - Over Two hundred and thirty years ago in 1768, a 'Society of Gentlemen' undertook the publication of the world's first Encyclopædia Britannica, establishing a tradition of comprehensiveness and authority in general knowledge that has remained unsurpassed ever since.
	www.britannica.co.uk /BritannicaCoUK_Info.htm (1511 words)

	Britannica Goes Concise
		Former Vice President Al Gore, IBM and others have often used "a Britannica" as a unit of measurement to characterize large quantities of digital information, preferring the image of the massive books to abstract measures such as mega-, giga- and terabytes.
		As Britannica develops one-volume titles it continues to move vigorously in the multivolume encyclopedia market.
		The 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1768, is the oldest continuously published reference work in the English language.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-13-2002/0001746541&EDATE= (459 words)

	Britannica Online : Electronic Resources : CPERS : Programs & Services : MINITEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica Online School Edition provides students, teachers, librarians and parents with the educational content resources and tools that improve teaching and learning through the creative use of digital technology.
		Britannica Online support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (800) 621-3900, or by email at bolhelp@eb.com.
		Britannica also provides a button that allows subscribers to easily download their stats report into an easy-to-use spreadsheet format.
	www.minitex.umn.edu /cpers/britannica (770 words)

	Jorge Cauz Named President of Encyclopaedia Britannica
		Cauz will be Britannica's senior executive, and all of the company's operations worldwide will report to him.
		Today Britannica claims several of the most successful subscription sites on the Internet for both consumers and schools and libraries.
		Britannica also has many digital products for consumers, schools, libraries and universities, including the Ultimate Reference Suite (CD-ROM/DVD) and Britannica.com (http://www.britannica.com).
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-24-2003/0002064526&EDATE= (352 words)

	Wired News: Encyclopedia Britannica Embraces Online Search
		Britannica's staff of 25 pedigreed experts in various fields has reviewed, rated, and categorized the Web according to its organization system.
		Britannica's re-invention of itself as an Internet directory comes after several years of turmoil in the encyclopedia industry brought on by he digital age.
		The Britannica CD-ROM price was cut from $1,000 per unit to $500, and then to $150 in April, which triggered sales to double.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,7654,00.html (1179 words)

	Britannica Enters New Era with Java Technology
		Britannica has a business strategy in which their revenue sources increasingly derive from a variety of channels and products such as print, CD-ROM, DVD, and the Internet.
		The result is the 2003 Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, which consists of three encyclopedias in one.
		It comprises the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is gauged for adults, a student encyclopedia for middle school to late high school students, and an elementary encyclopedia for children from third grade on up.
	java.sun.com /features/2003/02/britannica.html (1518 words)

	Inside Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Plunging crevasses, fierce winds, sudden storms, avalanches and temperatures as low as 76°F below zero are but a few of the risks faced on a trek to the summit.
		Encyclopædia Britannica has had the pleasure of publishing some of the most famous mountaineers in history.
		Retrace the route of the historic 1953 climb to the summit.
	newsletters.britannica.com /inside_sample.html (446 words)

	Amazon.com: Software: Encyclopedia Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica CD 2002 (Deluxe and Standard Edition) is a real disappointment for the advanced user of Britannica CD 98.
		Articles in Britannica are usually longer and more precise than articles in Encarta, not to mention the overall number of articles (Britannica beats Encarta, especially its Standard Edition).
		But keep in mind that even in Britannica there are some small and big mistakes, and that its interface and character display aren't as user friendly as in Encarta.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JGOD/garinmichaudroge (1413 words)

	Britannica Previews Directory of Quality Web Sites Selected by its Editors
		Consisting of sites chosen, reviewed, and rated by Britannica editors, the guide is the first major Web navigation service to combine an advanced search-and-retrieval system with site selections by highly skilled subject editors.
		Encyclopædia Britannica is the company to provide that service, and now is the time to do it.
		Britannica's editors select sites on the basis of depth and quality, the credentials and authority of a site's author, elegance of design, ease of navigation, effective use of multimedia, and frequency of revision.
	www.connors.com /press/eb.html (876 words)

	BCR - Britannica Online FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Libraries currently subscribing to Britannica Online via BCR's group purchase renew their subscriptions via the same form each year.
		Encyclopædia Britannica appreciates your business and is committed to providing you with consistently high levels of content and service as it continues to improve and upgrade Britannica Online.
		All Britannica needs from the institution is the referring URL to a secure Web page.
	www.bcr.org /reference/Britannica/Britannica-FAQ.html (893 words)

	Wired News: Britannica Does Britney
		With new "spicy" content designed to appeal to the young-and-bookish set, the digital sister of the 232-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica company hopes to breathe new life into the staid business of reference media.
		The company launched Britannica.com as a free site in October 1999 —-as an alternative to the mostly subscription-based Encyclopedia Britannica Online -- but it was forced to shut the site down after attracting more traffic than it could handle.
		"Britannica seems to come out with a new business model, a new approach to content, or a new pricing policy every month or two," said Daniel O'Brien, an analyst with Forrester Research.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,41591,00.html (1095 words)

	Encyclopaedia Britannica Launches Multi-Platform CD-ROM
		Britannica CD 98 Standard Edition is a hybrid edition (Mac/Windows compatible) of the award-winning CD-ROM encyclopedia, with updated information for 1998.
		Britannica CD 98 Standard Edition includes the entire text of the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica containing 72,000 articles (including thousands of articles which do not appear in the print set), 4,000 images, more than 1,200 maps, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1994-1997 Britannica Books-of-the-Year, as well as the complete Index.
		Britannica CD 98 Standard Edition continues to make information seeking simple and rewarding with three advanced search features: natural language, key word, and Boolean searching.
	www.connors.com /press/eb3.html (491 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica (UK) Ltd
		Britannica is a well-respected brand and has a long tradition in providing information on just about any subject you can think of.
		We pride ourselves in being able to encourage many thousands of customers, schools and colleges in discovering more about the world we live in.
		The all-in-one resource featuring a comprehensive, visually enhanced encyclopedia, suitable for all the family.
	www.britannica.co.uk (93 words)

	Britannica Burned by the Web (for Now) James Surowiecki
		But what's important about Britannica's most recent screw-up--it opened its revamped Web site for business two weeks ago and then immediately shut it down because the sheer volume of traffic crashed the site--is not just that it shows how ill-equipped to deal with the Internet most big companies remain.
		Britannica's performance in the 1990s has been an object lesson in what not to do.
		This may very well mean that Britannica won't ever really figure out how to capitalize on the Internet, since technology isn't going to stop changing and any successful company will have to make adaptability a core competence (at Britannica right now, it's not even a marginal competence).
	www.slate.com /id/1003924 (688 words)

	BCR - Britannica Online Product Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica Online is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative information databases on the Internet.
		Britannica Online is continually updated to provide the most current information possible.
		Over 73,000 articles from the printed Encyclopædia Britannica including more than 8,500 articles that are not found in the print set, plus 7,000 articles from the Britannica Books of the Year.
	www.bcr.org /reference/Britannica/Britannica-BOL-Description.html (265 words)

	Britannica Errors
		There are even more useless and nonproductive things to do, like obsessive-compulsive vacuuming and/or keeping your TV permanently set to the Weather Channel or, God help me, to QVC, the world's longest-running commercial.
		It is not my intent to deride Britannica; rather; it's just to show that the reference "standard of the world", being created by humans, is not infallible.
		His efforts to convince suburban Detroiters of the need to have their own set was successful enough to earn his three daughters and sons-in-law a free set each.
	members.cox.net /kevin82/eberrors.htm (695 words)

	ITworld.com - Britannica.com restructures pricing model again
		Britannica Online had two pricing models in place before Britannica.com went live in October 1999.
		For individuals, the cost was $5 per month, or $50 for a year's subscription.
		Moving back to the subscription model makes sense, said analyst Harry Wolhandler at ActivMedia Research LLC in Peterborough, N.H. "Early on, nobody knew what the revenue model was going to be, and as long as the investors were willing to fund any crazy idea that came along," the advertising model worked, Wolhandler said.
	www.itworld.com /Tech/2401/CWSTO58735/pfindex.html (439 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Browse the Britannica Store's new selections for critically acclaimed DVDs, including Vietnam: A Television History, powerful Britannica software such as the award-winning 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite, and books covering current topics like Historical Atlas of the Islamic World.
		This week marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar--a naval engagement between the British, commanded by Horatio Nelson, and the French, led by Pierre de Villeneuve--which established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years.
		Published in 1902-03, the 10th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica contained a volume dedicated entirely to maps, including insets focusing on the world's great cities, reproduced digitally in Cities of the World, a Britannica special presentation.
	www.britannica.com (235 words)

	Encyclopedia Sets. Britannica’s range of encyclopedia sets, they set the standard. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Britannica’s range of encyclopedia sets, they set the standard.
		At Britannica, you'll discover more than our renowned encyclopedia sets and books filled with incredible knowledge.
		Encyclopædia Britannica is proud to present the 2005 revision of the 15th edition of the world's most famous and authoritative reference work.
	www.britannica.com.au /Product/book/book2000.asp (321 words)

	Inside Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Send any Britannica Premium Service article to a friend by clicking the E-mail this article link at the top of an article page.
		You are receiving this e-mail as a benefit of your Britannica Premium Service membership.
		If you prefer not to receive future product and service update mailings from Britannica, simply respond to this e-mail with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
	newsletters.britannica.com /newsletter_AUG03.htm (440 words)

	DVD2001 Installation Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Setup program performs a check of all the software components required for operation of Britannica and displays a list of of those already present on your system those which are missing.
		NOTE: When you run Britannica DVD 2001 under any setup, the DVD disk must be present in your DVD-ROM drive.
		If you wish to run Britannica DVD 2001 entirely from your hard disk please refer to the document describing the Full Installation procedure.
	cdsupport.britannica.co.uk /solutions/DVD2001/general10.htm (623 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica School & Library Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now more than ever, knowledge and learning are at the core of Britannica's mission.
		We are publishing new and revised titles in a variety of media and for all ages.
		Britannica's commitment to school and libraries is evident in the variety and quality of products highlighted on this site.
	www.eb.com (73 words)

	Supplementary material (from encyclopaedia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More from Britannica on "Supplementary material (from encyclopaedia)"...
		The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published since 1768, when its first edition began to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		The detached skull, for example, may be covered with clay molded and painted to resemble a face.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /eb/article-32005 (835 words)

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