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Bertagna manages to transform 250-odd pages of encyclopaedia material into attention-grabbing vignettes. Nonetheless, a few questions peek through the pervading glow...
Writing is not the half of what the unquenchable Adler, 82, manages to do. A former professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, he recently completed a worldwide junket to promote the Encyclopaedia Britannica, of which he is editorial board chairman. He was a founder of Britannica's 54- volume Great Books of the Western World, and personally wrote every one of the 5,000- to 10,000-word essays defining the 102 Great Ideas that constitute the heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute...
...electronic encyclopedia is exactly the same as the printed version of the Academic American, published by Grolier Inc., which consists of 21 volumes, 28,000 articles and 9 million words. By comparison, the older and more respected Encyclopaedia Britannica has 30 volumes and 43 million words, while the World Book has 22 volumes and roughly 10 million words. Computerization, though, makes it relatively easy to update the Academic American, and a new version comes out every six months. An updated edition of the Britannica is published only annually, and the World Book is also modified once a year...
...relying too much on it. I wish they would transfer their interest to books." Observes Kenneth Kister, editor of the Encyclopedia Buying Guide: "Academic American was created under extreme deadline pressure. It's good, but not as well written as World Book or as comprehensive as the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...their reference books. For the past two years, World Book has tested an electronic encyclopedia on CompuServe, another computerized information service, but stopped offering it last month. The company says that the electronic version was not equal to the printed one because it was not illustrated. Since 1981 Encyclopaedia Britannica has been experimenting with a computerized version on Mead Data Central's Nexis system. But Mead's service is aimed at businesses and lawyers rather than schools and families...