Compton's Encyclopedia

Compton's Encyclopedia

Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index is a home and school encyclopedia first published in 1922 as "Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia". The word "Pictured" was removed from the title with the 1968 edition.[1] The encyclopedia is now advertised as Compton's by Britannica.

Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM (1989) was the first "multimedia" CD-ROM encyclopedia.[2] Grolier's earlier CD-ROM encyclopedia was not multimedia.

The encyclopedia was founded by Frank E. Compton in 1922. Publishing rights to the F.E. Compton & Company products were acquired by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. in 1961.[1]

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. initially owned Compton's Encyclopedia from 1961 to 1993, and later reacquired it in 2002. Britannica had sold its Compton's interests to the Tribune Company in 1993, and for a time Compton's Encyclopedia was a product of The Learning Company, which purchased Brøderbund in 1998. In March 2002 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. "acquired an exclusive license to publish and distribute Compton's Encyclopedia in print and CD-ROM from Broderbund LLC and Success Publishing Group".[3]

Contents

Print Editions

  • Compton's Encyclopedia, 8 volumes, 1922
    • 10 volumes, 1924, 1926, 1929
    • 16 volumes, 1931
    • 15 volumes, 1948
  • 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962
  • Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index, 24 volumes 1969-1971
    • 22 volumes, 1972, 1973
    • 26 volumes, annually 1974-1978 and 1980-1995, 2004
  • Compton's by Britannica
    • 26 volumes, 2009

CD-ROM Editions

  • Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia, CDROM, 1989, the first "multimedia" CD-ROM[2]
  • Compton's Family Encyclopedia, CDROM, 1991, a "stripped down" version of Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia[2]
  • Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, CDROM, 93, 95 - 99 then 2000 and 2001.

The CD-ROM versions of Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia were produced annually from 1995 to 2001.

Britannica's 1989 Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia was the first "multimedia" CD-ROM encyclopedia.[2]

Grolier's 1985 Academic American Encyclopedia on CD-ROM was text-only. In 1990, when it was called The New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia (1988-1991), still pictures were added.[2]

Variants of Compton's CD-ROM encyclopedias were Compton's Concise Encyclopedia, Compton's Family Encyclopedia, and Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Kister's Best Encyclopedias,1994
  3. ^ "Compton's Encyclopedia Returns to Britannica" , news release, Encyclopaedia Britannica, March 20, 2002

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