Victorious: encyclopedias on CD-ROM.(2 new CD-ROMs)(Review of Books and Multimedia - special section)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, February, 1998
ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA. Judaica Multimedia and Ketter Publishing House.
WORLD BOOK DISCOVERIES: FIVE CD GALLIMARD-LAROUSSE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. IBM and World Book; K49.99
NOT long ago encyclopedias were seen as the repository of all knowledge. Yet today these imposing tomes that bent the bookshelves of yesterday's children are gathering dust. Worldwide sales of the 32-volumes of the printed version of "Encyclopedia Britannica", sold door-to-door for generations, have fallen dramatically from the 350,000 they touched in 1990. It is sales of its electronic version that have soared.
In this age of digitised information, knowledge, it seems, must be seen and heard, not just read. "Look it up" now means mastering the intricacies of Boolean search...
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