Houghton Mifflin eReference
November 11, 2003
One of my clients, Houghton Mifflin, has launched a new e-commerce Web site for their eReference product line. eReference is a downloadable version of the Fourth Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and a companion thesaurus, Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus. eReference has the full databases of each of these two fine books, with a number of interactive features including search, spell correction, and spoken pronunciations.
The databases have been created and maintained in XML, and the electronic version stores XML-encoded entries that are converted to HTML on the fly for display and printing. The database, supporting software, and multimedia elements make this, in my opinion, the best tool of its kind on the market. The eReference tool is downloaded to your hard drive, and will eventually accommodate other reference works that Houghton is producing. My congratulations to Houghton Mifflin on the successful launch of this new product.
Posted by Bill Trippe at November 11, 2003 3:01 PM
