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Article: English Dictionaries and E-Books.
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- Information Today
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Paul Blake is editor of Learned Information Europe, Ltd.'s information industry newspaper Information World Review. His e-mail address is paulb@vnu.co.uk.
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