It costs nothing to use but it shoved the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica into moldy library stacks.
Even the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica has come to understand the importance of visual thematic relationships.
When it gives, it sounds like a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica has hit the concrete-slab floor.
By this measure, it is almost 12 times larger than the print version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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In the decades that followed, Britannica struggled through new owners, spotty sales, world wars and feeble attempts to innovate.
On the other hand, there are some topics in Britannica's smaller collection of articles that I couldn't locate in Wikipedia.
"We're a victim of our own success, " said Jorge Cauz, senior vice president for sales and marketing of Britannica.com Inc.
You can argue whether Britannica should exist at all, considering that knowledge is productively (often chaotically) crowd-sourced on Wikipedia and its kin.
The home page of the Britannica app features a large daily color photo with an accompanying free article related to the picture.
The forthcoming Britannica iPad app, which also is slated to appear later in an iPhone and Android version, is handsome and colorful.
Many contemporary topics, like the latest in pop culture, or some current public figures, are included in Wikipedia, but missing from Britannica.
From a marketing perspective they were the thin edge of the sales sword for brands like Encyclopedia Britannica, Avon, and Fuller Brushes.
These include the ability to add Twitter functionality to the Outlook email tool and to consult Encyclopaedia Britannica articles from within Word.
Don Yannias, CEO of Britannica.com, released a note of apology to users.
Knowledge, which used to be available only to the elite classes through books such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, is today abundant and free.
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For instance, the widely praised and popular TV show "Modern Family" gets lavish coverage in Wikipedia, but doesn't make the cut in Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, the company, has largely moved away from its encyclopaedia work focusing most of its energies in recent years on educational software.
His own star catalogue, the Historia Coelestis Britannica, was eventually published posthumously by his wife and co-observer at the Observatory, Margaret Flamsteed, in 1725.
He'll have to push aside such traditional vendors as The Economist and the Encyclopaedia Britannica with a combination of lower prices and more current information.
Extra staff and computer hardware were being deployed and the problem was expected to be cleared up within 48 hours, according to a Britannica spokesman.
Steering clear of Northwestern University's tweedy English department, he graduated in 1937 in anthropology and sociology and later went to work for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Like phone books, we used to have immutable facts all compiled in Encyclopedia Britannica: 9 planets in our solar system, the Soviet Union, and avoid alcohol.
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And you can't print articles from the app, though Britannica says it plans to add printing and the ability to post references to articles to social networks.
The history of business (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Polaroid etc.), politics and sports are filled with examples of individuals and teams that failed to notice that the game had changed.
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And Britannica has many articles written by credentialed academics, journalists and other experts, while it can be difficult to discern the credentials, or even the real name, of a Wikipedia contributor.
Since I don't presume to be an academic expert, for this review I focused mostly on the experience of using the forthcoming Britannica app, rather than attempting to analyze its contents.
Britannica said while its decision to focus on online editions was influenced by the shift in consumer pattern, the ability to update content at a short notice also played a big role.
Especially for students, or anyone who values what Britannica has to offer, I found the new Britannica iPad app to be a pleasing, easy way to navigate through a large body of knowledge.
In spite of the problems that we are experiencing, we are encouraged by the high demand for Britannica.com, and believe that you will soon find the site to be the best source for information on the Internet.
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