Road kill on the Info Highway.

For 200 years, the Years, The

the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109]

See : Time encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books
business was dominated by one company -- Encyclopedia Britannica. Millions of households around the world made the $2,000 investment in a set. Then along came Encarta Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation. As of 2005, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 68,000 articles, numerous images and movies, and homework tools, and is available on the World Wide , Grolier Gro´lier`

n. 1. The name by which

Jean Grolier de Servier erson> (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; - used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc. , and others. Instead of buying books weighing 50 kilos people can now get the same information, plus sound and video, packed onto a 25-gram CD-ROM--and, for less than $100. Britannica did not pick up on the new technology and went from being profitable until 1990, to being a big money-loser.

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Title Annotation:	New Economy - Information Highway; Encyclopedia Britannica loses profitability after failing to adopt new technology
Publication:	Canada and the World Backgrounder
Date:	Mar 1, 1995
Words:	82
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