Compton's Encyclopedia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%27s_Encyclopedia


00:01:27 1 Print editions
00:03:04 2 CD-ROM editions
00:04:27 3 Environments in Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
00:04:52 4 See also



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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. The encyclopedia is now advertised as Compton's by Britannica.
Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM (1989) was the first multimedia encyclopedia. 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 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1961.Encyclopædia 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 Encyclopædia 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".