Encyclopedia Britannica's thirty-two-volume set that normally sells for $1,250 in book form is now online, free to users. The site will be supported by advertisements. It will also carry newsfeeds from newswires and newspapers, a Web directory, and selected articles from more than seventy magazines. The site is at http://www.britannica.com.
(Editor's Note: Unfortunately, I have been unable to access this site, possibly due to an overload of traffic.)
For more information, see the following articles online:
Britannica Goes Online, Free (Wired News)
http://www.wired.com/news/
reuters/0,1349,31992,00.html?tw=wn19991019
Encyclopedia Britannica Opens Its Book to the Internet for Free (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/19/britannica/
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