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Grolier was one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of a CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003).
The Britannica book of the war (1914) Britannica Home University (1920) Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as Britannica Junior (1934) Great Books of the Western World (1952) Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven to 14. Gateway to the Great Books (1963)
Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. Products are distributed via retail and online sales and through schools via reading clubs and book fairs.
Encyclopedia Americana is a general encyclopedia [1] written in American English.It was the first general encyclopedia of any magnitude to be published in North America. [2]: 31 With Collier's Encyclopedia and Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopedia Americana became one of the three major and large English-language general encyclopedias; the three were sometimes collectively called "the ABCs of ...
The School Reading List website says its recommendations are "curated and reviewed by a small group of librarians, English teachers [11] and parents who discuss books that have worked well with groups of children". The company is based in London.
On 20 July 2011, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced that Concentric Sky had ported the Britannica Kids product line to Intel's Intel Atom-based Netbooks [74] [75] and on 26 October 2011 that it had launched its encyclopaedia as an iPad app. [76] In 2010, Britannica released Britannica ImageQuest, a database of images. [77]
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
In 2012, after 244 years, Britannica ended the print editions, with the 32 volumes of the 2010 installment being the last on paper; future editions have been published exclusively online since. [6] In 2018, the company released Britannica Insights, an extension for the Chrome web browser. The extension supplements Google's featured snippets. [7]