All the lexicons are made in Iceland, by Icelandic people. The program can easily share screen space with a word processing document or an Internet browser. The listbox window on the right allows the user to click on similar words and see their meanings in the middle window. The electronic dictionary was first introduced in Iceland in 1993 and was an immediate success. In 1996 the publishing firm Mal og menning acquired the publishing rights in Iceland.
Copies sold to date run into the thousands.
Users feel relieved to be rid of printed dictionaries and are very appreciative of the technical merits of an electronic dictionary. Companies, especially the big ones, want to empower their employees with good and practical language tools and many of them are investing in our dictionary in a serious way, preferring it to printed dictionaries, for the present and for the future. Through the Internet and e-mail, contact can be established and maintained between the publisher and the user. In the latest versions of the electronic dictionary there is even a feature that activates the user's web browser to open the part of our web site that has been specially designed to anticipate such visits. People with disabilites are literally ecstatic.