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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]
Britannica's Tales Around the World, written by Douglas Lieberman, teaches kids a familiar fairy tale from around the world, followed by two lesser-known stories that share a similar theme. The series opens up in a computer-generated landscape, containing a floating castle and the planet Earth in the background.
This is a list of well-known online encyclopedias that are accessible or formerly accessible on the Internet. The largest online encyclopedias are general reference works, though there are also many specialized ones.
An online encyclopedia, also called an Internet encyclopedia, is a digital encyclopedia accessible through the Internet. Some examples include Encyclopedia.com since 1998, Encarta from 2000 to 2009, Wikipedia since 2001, and Encyclopædia Britannica since 2016.
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]
Encyclopædia Britannica, a printed encyclopedia, and Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. An encyclopedia [a] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline.
Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices.
Britannica's Outline of Knowledge was created for the 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, prior to the rest of the encyclopedia, as a plan from which to base topic coverage on – to shape it before it was built. It served initially to ensure quality, and once the encyclopedia was completed, as a topical guide.