Brockhaus-Duden New Media

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The Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH (BDNM) was a 100% subsidiary of Bibliographical Institute & FA Brockhaus and since the restructuring of the publishing house as a profit center for the area of new media responsible. The company was managed by Hans Huck-Blänsdorf (sales) and Bernd Kreissig (editing). The Duden company developed into the company " Duden Paetec GmbH - Duden Schulbuchverlag ", which belongs to the " Cornelsenverlag " division of the Franz Cornelsen Education Group, and the brand " DUDEN ", which covers the well-known reference works and learning aids and at the Bibliographical Institute is located.

history

Instead of founding a new company, the publishing house chose to convert the previously inactive Dr. Helmuth Bücking GmbH . The articles of association were rewritten at the beginning of January 2001. The company's purpose was declared:

The production of and trading in electronically stored information as well as their data carriers, namely CD-ROMs and DVDs within the framework of a management contract between the company and Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG.

On December 1, 2002, BDNM took over the operation of the website xipolis.net .

Products

BDNM offered the following products:

  • the digital Brockhaus encyclopedia on USB stick,
  • the infotainment product Brockhaus Multimedial 1 ,
  • the Brockhaus in text and picture 1, 2 ,
  • various Duden dictionaries 2 ,
  • the Duden corrector product family for spell checking,
  • the Duden OpenOffice.org Suite 3 ,
  • the Duden typing trainer and
  • the Lifelab. Molecular biological experiments.

In addition, the company made the technology (Duden-Proof-Factory, Duden-Linguistic-Engine), on which the Duden-Korrektor product family is based, available to other companies for integration into software. Editorial systems, content management systems, e-mail clients and translation programs are now also equipped with the Duden spell checker. Numerous dictionary and lexicon contents were also offered to companies for licensing.

Remarks:
1 Annual publication for Windows , macOS and Linux .
2 These products are offered for the Office library that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
3 This is offered for Windows and Linux.

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  • Annual reports of the Bibliographical Institute & FA Brockhaus since 2001
  • BIFAB press releases
  • Entry in the commercial register for the companies: Dr. Helmuth Bücking GmbH and Brockhaus-Duden Neue Medien GmbH

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