Bartleby Weekly: March 20, 2000

Bartleby Weekly

Volume I, Issue 1. March 20, 2000

Bartleby.com Unveils Most Comprehensive Reference Site

With the release of five preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the Web.

Read about it in Bartleby.com’s press release.

Leaves of Grass Celebrates Sixth Year on the Web

Over six years ago, the project that formed the basis of Bartleby.com used the nascent language of hypertext markup to publish the first classic book on the Web, namely, Leaves of Grass.

The David McKay edition of Walt Whitman’s transformative poetry was chosen for a variety of reasons: the complex structure of the book made the Web an ideal publishing medium for both computer-aided search and multiple indexing of poems.

On the centennial of the publication of the McKay edition, Bartleby.com has completely redesigned not only the interface to this book that ushered in the new age of electronic publishing, but each classic Bartleby.com text.

Read Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

Quotation of the Day Makes New Start

Almost eight years ago, the experiment that became Bartleby.com began with a simple quotation of the day. With the redesign of Bartleby.com on the vernal equinox, this feature springs anew, drawing on some 19,000 quotations from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.

Read today’s quotation on the Bartleby.com homepage.

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