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Britannica.com Newsletters

In case you haven't heard, Encyclopedia Britannica has hit the Web in a big way. Not only is the entire Encyclopedia Britannica online but all sorts of other information services are being offered at http://www.brittanica.com/ See the company's description of its services, below, for an idea of what you can expect when visiting their site:

Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center for people who seek thoughtful and engaging context to today's affairs. Only Britannica.com lets users simultaneously search the world's most respected encyclopedia, expert reviews of the Web's best sites, timely articles from leading magazines, and Books in Print. Special interactive features extend these resources to create a distinctive, authoritative Internet destination.

Britannica.com includes the complete, updated Encyclopędia Britannica, the oldest and largest general reference in the English language. Selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The Economist--provide additional feature and current-events coverage. Our guide to the Web's best sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information. The Books in Print database is available through Britannica.com, and you can follow links from these citations to order books online from Barnes & Noble. All these databases, including a collection of special online Spotlights, can be accessed through a single search.

World and U.S. news from the editors of washingtonpost.com is updated around the clock. With market data and weather forecasts, Britannica.com is an ideal Internet gateway.

The Britannica.com Store includes a selection of quality Britannica.com products, such as Britannica CD 2000, as well as other merchandise in our Knowledge Collection.

One of the choices you are given on the Britannica.com main page (top, right-hand corner) is to subscribe to the following E-mail newsletters. Just click on the subscribe line and you are sent to a subscription form which allows you to choose one or all of the newsletters.

  • In the Know - A digest of new features on Britannica.com, delivered weekly.
  • Movable Type - The world of books explored through quotes and trivia, delivered weekly.
  • Deep Background - Quotes, facts, and statistics to give you perspective on the news, delivered weekly.
  • Site of the Day - Expect the unexpected from this Web feature, delivered every weekday.