Panelas reports that Britannica (www.Britannica.com) has been engaged in digital publishing since before it reached other segments of publishing. “In fact, Britannica had a big part in bringing [digital publishing] about. We published our first digital version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1981 for Lexis/Nexis users, created the first multi-media encyclopedia in the late 1980s, and published the first encyclopedia on the Internet in 1994.”
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Panelas reports that Britannica (www.Britannica.com) has been engaged in digital publishing since before it reached other segments of publishing. “In fact, Britannica had a big part in bringing [digital publishing] about. We published our first digital version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1981 for Lexis/Nexis users, created the first multi-media encyclopedia in the late 1980s, and published the first encyclopedia on the Internet in 1994.”