When Tom Panelas started working at Encyclopedia Britannica around
18 years ago, the company had inked a deal to make its content available
through Lexis-Nexis. The idea at the time was that professional
researchers would be interested in paying fees to access the
information. ’Few people envisioned a time when direct or electronic
publishing would happen in the consumer market,’ he recalls. How times
have changed.
When Tom Panelas started working at Encyclopedia Britannica around
18 years ago, the company had inked a deal to make its content ...