[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

[Mathias Schindler]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eek! What's happening to the content?
>

There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core
Brockhaus encyclopedia:

1. Buy the book. 30 volumes, 2700€ - 3100€, depending on your payment
plan: http://www.brockhaus.de/enzyklopaedie/aufeinenblick/bestellen.php

2. Buy the "USB stick edition": 1500 €. no longer being sold.

3. Pay per view via munzinger.de
http://munzinger.de/search/query?f=query&qid=query-12

4. online subscription to brockhaus-enzyklopaedie.de. There was never
an end user license for this web site. end users had to buy 1. or 2.
(see above) to get access to this site until 31/12/2010.

5. Get the content (or a very similar kind encyclopedia) from
http://lexikon.meyers.de, which is the second encyclopedia brand name
at BIFAB AG. BIFAB has announced to shut down all encyclopedia related
activities and has said that the content at lexikon.meyers.de is
largely taken from Brockhaus substance so that they are unable to
continue this service. Hence we have to assume that lexikon.meyers.de
is going to be shut down in the next 39 days.