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It has 10, employees worldwide and serves customers in more than countries. Our Business Our business overview Perspectives. Board of Directors Business leaders. In an important step to expand its markets, MDC began allowing access to its databases through personal computers. The company did this by putting the information on computer disks, which it sold in a package with documentation and keyboard templates.
More and more entities were seeking ways to provide information electronically. MDC performed much of the development work for EDGAR and then was involved in managing the filings and making copies available for dissemination. By , the growth of the electronic information industry had lead to consolidation, with 20 major purchases during the year.
A total of 40 percent of these involved foreign companies or their subsidiaries, including the purchase by Reed Publishing Ltd. MDC was also making acquisitions.
Michie published 22 annotated state codes and helped in building the LEXIS database to 50 state statutes. LEXIS dominated the electronic legal information market through the s, but in the service's growth began to slow. Initially this happened as a result of the recession, with layoffs and cost cutbacks in legal firms.
Then, in the early s, increased competition and changes in technology ate into its market share. Among online dial-up competitors, West Publishing's Westlaw was gaining market share. According to a article in Legal Publisher, '[LEXIS] has instituted interface and access enhancements only in response to competition and the whole computer system is in need of major upgrading and overhaul.
In addition, the Internet made it possible for people to search for masses of information and anticipated drops in telecommunications costs would give more people access to that information. Players in the industry were busy developing methods to organize and package information in ways that would be helpful to the user.
We know how to collect it, and how to put it in a form that makes it productive and efficient and effective for the user, and that they will be willing to pay for. If we fail to do that, to add value in that data collection process, then we're going to have to change our business. Internationally, consolidation within the information industry continued. The new entity became the third largest information company in the world, behind Time Warner Inc.
In May , Mead Corporation announced that it was getting out of the electronic information business to concentrate on making paper and it put MDC on the market. The purchase of MDC signaled the company's intention to shift from dependence on hard copy publishing to increased use of online information, with electronic publishing expected to double to 20 percent in Reed Elsevier was the publisher of more than 1, journals and magazines, including Lancet, the British medical journal, Modern Bride, Variety, and various science and computer magazines as well as books and newspapers.
Bowker, a leading library publisher, and Reed Exhibitions. Reed Elsevier's purchase of MDC moved the publisher right into the online information business. But major technological changes were occurring that would greatly impact electronic publishing.
The Internet and the World Wide Web became more important tools to both searchers for and deliverers of information. Weekly business and news magazines began appearing online. West Publishing put its Legal Directory on its web site.
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