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The initial product, ArĂȘte Encyclopedia, was created on a schedule that was too tight resulting in many difficulties. The first Vice President of Editorial, Larry Lustig, came from Encyclopaedia Britannica and found the pressure too great. He was replaced by Michael Reed who came from
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published in 1980. It was first produced by ArĂȘte Publishing, the American subsidiary of the Dutch publishing company
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ArĂȘte Publishing's interactive version, including illustrations, video and audio stored on
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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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acquired the encyclopedia in 1982. It has also been published under the names
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version features a search function and offers the complete text of the
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The full text of the encyclopedia was available to 200 homes in
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Information Technology and Its Impact on American Education
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English-language
encyclopedia
VNU
Nielsen Media Research
World Book Encyclopedia
Grolier
Barnes & Noble
Columbus, Ohio
OCLC
The New York Times
Dow Jones News/Retrieval
CompuServe
videodisk
Frankfurt
Book Fair
Grolier
CD-ROM
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
CD-ROM
illustrations
photographs
animated
maps
music
videos
The Software Toolworks
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Lists of encyclopedias
KnowledgeSet

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