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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: Encyclopaedia Britannica ONLINE FREE
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Fellows and others,
According to the Los Angeles Times, Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to
go online for free <http://www.eb.com/>. The article looks like the LA
Times picked up a press release.
See the article for the details:
Britannica Gives In and Gets Online
By JONATHAN GAW, Times Staff Writer
Thursday, Oct 19.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/front/19991019/t000094383.html>
This resource has been available via the web on a subscription basis for a
while. The article indicates that they've decided to switch to advertising
to pay for the online service.
Later,
Betty
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National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/LC(1330)
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1330
ebro@loc.gov telephone: 202/707-2235
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