If you have a previous WORLD BOOK
edition for Mac OS X (2002-2008 editions), you can order
the upgrade for $34.95!
2009 Webcam Collection
The next best thing to being half way across the world is
to travel through the magic of Webcams. Software MacKiev has added hundreds
of editor-approved Webcams to the 2009 edition of WORLD BOOK. Watch the
world's largest ferris wheel spinning in Singapore. Look out for "Nessie" on
Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. See the trains roll into Blumberg Station
in southern Germany and the gondoliers navigating the Grand Canal in Venice.
The webcams are all kid-safe and updated monthly.
Media
Showcase Widget
Do you know where sitatungas live?
Find out with WORLD BOOK's newest widget: The 2009 WORLD BOOK Media Showcase. With more than a thousand gorgeous
images from WORLD BOOK articles gathered in a quiz format,
you'll have fun learning about people, places and living
things across the planet while viewing the best of WORLD BOOK's media collection. If you're stumped, you can click
through to the WORLD BOOK article to find the answer.
Content for iPod and iPhone
All WORLD BOOK media content has been adapted to play on
Apple's latest iPods including the new iPod Nano and iPod Touch. Exporting
WORLD BOOK content to your iPod is just one click away so you can take
WORLD BOOK's media library with you. Watch a documentary video clip on
the Civil War or listen to WORLD BOOKs rich music collection anywhere you
roam. And as a special bonus, our This Day in History widget is also available
as an application that can run on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Thousands of new articles and
pictures
Each year the editors of the WORLD BOOK's 22-volume paper-bound version of the encyclopedia,
update articles and add new ones. Those all are taken
word for word into the multimedia edition. For 2009
there are more than 4,000 new and updated articles – from
Angelina Jolie to Generation Y, Organic food, and YouTube
– as well as lots of great new photographs, video clips,
and more!
