Encyclopaedia Universalis
The Encyclopaedia Universalis is an encyclopedia in French published in volumes in print, on CD-ROM and DVD. It is also available on the Internet by subscription.
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The Encyclopaedia Universalis is published by the publishing company Encyclopdia Universalis SA. This company was founded in 1966 by a specialist in publishing and selling books and collections of correspondence, the French book club , owned by the family Aubry, Inc. and Encyclopdia Britannica. (Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ), the Anglo-Saxon encyclopedia most famous, owned at the time by the Foundation of the University of Chicago. This joint venture to 50/50 was designed to combine the skills of two shareholders in both forms of distribution, so essential for encyclopedias, mail order on the one hand and selling door to door on the other hand, specialty of American society. This recipe, and the quality of successive versions of the Encyclopaedia Universalis, the first volume of the first edition appeared in 1968 under the direction of Claude Grgory with, a graphic point of view, a model designed by Pierre Faucheux , would enable a remarkable commercial success until the early 1990's , when sales began to decline.
During the second half of the 1990s, the introduction and rapid improvement of electronic versions of the encyclopedia, using funds from the printed editorials enriched many specific contributions, led by its president Pierre Le Manh and editorial director Louis Lecomte, allowed the Encyclopdia Universalis experiencing a second period of success and growth. However this transformation was to alter the balance between economic distribution systems resulting in increasing conflicts between shareholders, starting in the early 2000s several other leaders to heaven and appointment - at the request of Britannica - an administrator who manages the company until July 2005 , when the Book Club French finally ceded its shares to Encyclopdia Britannica Inc.. after a bidding process, after forty years or for partnerships.
Along with publishing paper , electronic editions have been added each year since 1995 , first on CD and then DVD , and finally remote versions available on the Internet for the general public or to institutions (National Education, primarily ) through the subscription of a subscription.
In addition to many specialized books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM topics, were published by the company over the years, alone or in co-publishing. Moreover Encyclopaedia Universalis reissued some securities French book club , its parent, such as Almanac of the French Revolution in 1988.
The paper version is selling more than a few thousand copies. However, at 3000 euros each, this represents a turnover of over 9 million and increased sales of electronic versions does not prevent the publication of a sixth edition in 2009 as well as an original edition in ten volumes designed for ages 8 to 12 years.
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