Luidia and Encyclopaedia Britannica Partner to Bring New Content to Interactive Whiteboards

— eBeam Edge for Education Systems Offer Integrated Access to World-Class Encyclopaedia Britannica Reference Materials — 

San Carlos, CA and Chicago – January 12, 2010 – Luidia, Inc. and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. today announced they have reached an agreement to provide users of Luidia’s award-winning eBeam^® interactive whiteboard systems with access to a wide variety of Encyclopaedia Britannica content for students and educators. eBeam is the first interactive whiteboard solution to integrate Britannica’s high-quality, comprehensive reference materials. The partnership will also provide expansive content for eBeam users – including math, language arts, social studies and much more.

eBeam Edge for Education systems will now be integrated with the brand new 2011 Encyclopaedia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite DVD, which includes:  

• Three age-appropriate Britannica encyclopedias 
• Britannica Biographies of world leaders
• Britannica Classics (articles from famous Britannica contributors)
• The Britannica BrainStormer interactive tool for discovering new ideas and relationships between topics 
• Britannica Book of the Year (a review of annual events)
• World Atlas including more than 2,600 maps
• Merriam-Webster^® Collegiate and Student Dictionaries, Thesauruses and Spanish-English Translation Dictionary
•  A huge selection of rich multimedia, including 31,000 image, audio and video files.

In addition, eBeam Edge for Education users will receive a complimentary three-month trial of Britannica Online, providing access to 166,000 trusted sites selected by Britannica editors, plus links to thousands of videos and magazines for a wealth of additional information. 

Teachers will also be able to launch Britannica content directly from the eBeam Gallery, within Luidia’s Scrapbook™ multimedia software, providing access to a wide range of Britannica interactive lesson materials in a new, easy to use format.

”This partnership with Britannica will provide eBeam users with an unprecedented amount of content to help engage students,” said Luidia CEO, Rafi Holtzman. “This continues our longstanding efforts to make the eBeam platform not only an indispensable tool for both education and corporate users, but also the best value in the industry.”

“Interactive whiteboards are an important new channel for bringing educational content into the classroom,” said Jason Nitschke, Executive Director of Business Development, at Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Working with Luidia, we can provide educators and students with new ways of accessing and interacting with the latest information on thousands of topics, as well as a wide variety of age-appropriate learning materials developed by teachers and curriculum experts.”

The Encyclopaedia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite DVD will be available in April. Those who purchase an eBeam for Education system before the April release date will be able to receive the DVD when it is released.

About Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. is a leader in reference and education publishing whose products can be found in many media, from the Internet to wireless devices to books. A pioneer in electronic publishing since the early 1980s, the company also still publishes the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, along with services such as Britannica Online School Edition and new printed products such as Britannica Illustrated Science Library, which are available online at store.britannica.com (consumers) and info.eb.com (institutions). The company makes its headquarters in Chicago.

About Luidia

Luidia produces eBeam portable interactive solutions that work with existing writing surfaces to capture meeting notes as they are created and, in conjunction with digital projection, turn traditional whiteboards into interactive ones. Luidia also provides its award-winning Idea Capturing Technology™ to industry leaders such as 3M, ACCO, Hitachi, NEC, edding AG, and Uchida, which incorporate the technology into compelling new interactive presentation and display products. Formerly a division of Electronics for Imaging (NASDQ: EFII), Luidia was incorporated in July 2003. For more information, please visit: www.luidia.com.

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