Word: encyclopaedia
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Paul Hoffman, president of Encyclopaedia Britannica, knows zero well, having received one in penmanship in second grade
...like everything else digital, even that consideration is changing--you may not have to buy that box at all. The move to distribute software online is just breaking out. Among our recommended products, Norton 2000 can already be bought as a download. Still more of a paradigm shift is Encyclopaedia Britannica's recent move to give its contents away on its website. If others follow suit, a brave new world is here indeed...
PAUL HOFFMAN is president of Encyclopaedia Britannica and author, most recently, of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
...hundreds of front-line businesses, this cerebral revolution has become very real. And very unpleasant. Talk to the folks at 230-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica, which two years ago dismissed its entire home sales force in North America after the arrival of the Internet at $8.50 a month made the idea of owning a $1,250, 32-volume set of books seem less appealing. Kids, everyone knew, were just as happy to get their information online or from a CD-ROM. In fact, they preferred it. The 170-year-old Journal of Commerce, which made most of its money from...
...almost every big-ticket application program, like word processing (Microsoft Word), electronic spreadsheets (Excel), filing (Access), scheduling (Project) and the new all-in-one program "suites" (Office). Microsoft's Flight Simulator is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Microsoft's electronic encyclopedia (Encarta) outsells the Encyclopaedia Britannica...