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Published on: 11/28/2000
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Bernie Rice, general manager of reference software for IBM's consumer divisions, said they were adding 600 to 700 articles each month.He said that part of IBM's involvement was to add "pizzazz" in the form of design and graphics to the excellent World Book content.
Web sites are embedded in articles in the CD, and editors check the sites each month.Generally, if a site referred to in the CD moves, a link is maintained for a few months.But if it just becomes inactive, users may become disappointed.
When the network version, priced at $1295 for LAN-wide use by a school, was completed in March, he said, they already had 1,100 orders for it.
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Rice said that a British version of the encyclopedia was recently announced, with 40% of the product new for the international market.
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