The Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2006 DVD contains over 55 million words and just over 100,000 articles.[66] This includes 73,645 regular Britannica articles, with the remainder drawn from the Britannica Student Encyclopædia, the Britannica Elementary Encyclopædia and the Britannica Book of the Year (1993–2004), plus a few "classic" articles from early editions of the encyclopaedia. The package includes a range of supplementary content including maps, videos, sound clips, animations and web links. It also offers study tools and dictionary and thesaurus entries from Merriam-Webster.
Britannica Online is a website with more than 120,000 articles and is updated regularly.[67] It has daily features, updates and links to news reports from The New York Times and the BBC. As of 2009, roughly 60% of Encyclopædia Britannica's revenue came from online operations, of which around 15% came from subscriptions to the consumer version of the websites.[68] As of 2006, subscriptions were available on a yearly, monthly or weekly basis.[69] Special subscription plans are offered to schools, colleges and libraries; such institutional subscribers constitute an important part of Britannica's business. Articles may be accessed online for free, but only a few opening lines of text are displayed. Beginning in early 2007, the Britannica made articles freely available if they are hyperlinked from an external site;[70]
On 20 February 2007, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced that it was working with mobile phone search company AskMeNow to launch a mobile encyclopaedia.[71] Users will be able to send a question via text message, and AskMeNow will search Britannica's 28,000-article concise encyclopaedia to return an answer to the query. Daily topical features sent directly to users' mobile phones are also planned.
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On 3 June 2008, an initiative to facilitate collaboration between online expert and amateur scholarly contributors for Britannica's online content (in the spirit of a wiki), with editorial oversight from Britannica staff, was announced.[72][73] Approved contributions would be credited,[74] though contributing automatically grants Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. perpetual, irrevocable license to those contributions.[75]
On 22 January 2009, Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, announced that the company would be accepting edits and additions to the online Britannica website from the public. The published edition of the encyclopaedia will not be affected by the changes.[76] Individuals wishing to edit the Britannica website will have to register under their real name and address prior to editing or submitting their content.[77] All edits submitted will be reviewed and checked and will have to be approved by the encyclopaedia's professional staff.[77] Contributions from non-academic users will sit in a separate section from the expert-generated Britannica content,[78] as will content submitted by non-Britannica scholars.[79] Articles written by users, if vetted and approved, will also only be available in a special section of the website, separate from the professional articles.[76][79] Official Britannica material would carry a "Britannica Checked" stamp, to distinguish it from the user-generated content.[80]
On 14 September 2010, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced a partnership with mobile phone development company Concentric Sky to launch a series of iPhone products aimed at the K-12 market.[81] 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.-WIKIPEDIA
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