New clothes and freshly sharpened pencils aren’t the only sign of another school year getting started. CD-ROM encyclopedias, one of the best learning tools for students ages 9-15, are also rolling out ...

Never have so many parents trembled at the salesman’s glib pitch that knowledge is the key to happiness and that their children will not even find the door without an encyclopedia. Sales of ...

You probably don’t remember anything about Frank E. Compton. “F.E.” was born here in 1874, one of 10 children. His forgotten father, Henry Harrison Compton, a “big hearty horse trader,” owned a ...

A radically new kind of encyclopedia has turned the centuries-old reference book industry upside down. The multimedia encyclopedia comes on a single compact disc that plugs into a computer’s CD-ROM ...