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World Book

Who runs World Book, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Educational reference publishing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Gale

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs World Book

World Book worldbook.com

World Book is a leading publisher of nonfiction and mixed-genre children's book series, reference materials, and digital learning platforms. Education is World Book’s commitment and its editorial team is World Book’s strength. Each team member is dedicated to producing accurate and unbiased information by utilizing contemporary technological tools and following traditional practices of editorial excellence. For more than 100 years, World Book has promoted learning for the entire family through a range of products in which complex topics are concisely explained and vividly illustrated. An expli

Wikidata: American encyclopedia

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive

02 · Privacy

What World Book tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

15 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
5 tools
  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to World Book

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to World Book, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than World BookNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan
  1. 01
    Gale gale.com No trackers

    Gale: Historical Archive, Educational & Library Resources

    Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides historical archive, library solutions, and trusted educational resources for academic, K-12, and public libraries.

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  2. 02
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online britannica.com Top 1K English

    online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

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  3. 03
    EBSCO Information Services ebsco.com Top 10K English No trackers

    EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service

    EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions

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  4. 04
    Cengage Group cengage.com

    commercial publisher of textbooks, educational software, and training programs

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  5. 05
    HarperCollins harpercollins.com

    Anglo-American publishing house

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  6. 06
    Lulu lulu.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Global Book Printing, Publishing, and Technology Company | Lulu

    Lulu is a publishing technology platform for on-demand book printing and global fulfillment, powered by APIs and ecommerce integrations.

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  7. 07
    Manning manning.com English 9 trackers

    Manning

    Manning publishes books, eBooks, video courses and liveProjects on programming, software engineering, AI, data science and other technology topics, written by practitioners and available in print, eBook and on liveBook.

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  8. 08
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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  9. 09
    Simon & Schuster simonandschuster.com

    American publishing company

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  10. 10
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

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  11. 11
    Hachette Book Group hachettebookgroup.com English 1 tracker

    Hachette Book Group

    Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.

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  12. 12
    Wiley-VCH wiley.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Wiley-VCH - Home

    Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing

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  13. 13
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

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  14. 14
    Penguin Random House penguinrandomhouse.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Penguin Random House

    Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.

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  15. 15
    Routledge routledge.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books

    Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals

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  16. 16
    Draft2Digital draft2digital.com English No trackers

    Draft2Digital

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  17. 17
    Savvas savvas.com English 1 tracker

    K-12 Learning | Education Curriculum | Savvas Learning Company

    Savvas Learning Company creates award-winning education curriculum, assessments, and K-12 learning solutions to improve student outcomes.

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  18. 18
    Everand everand.com English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    digital library

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  19. 19

    Электронная библиотека MyBook — читайте книги в онлайн библиотеке. Новинки и бестселлеры литературы в библиотеке электронных книг.

    В электронной библиотеке MyBook можно прочитать более 1125000 электронных книг. Для онлайн чтения доступны шедевры современной и классической литературы. Новинки и бестселлеры, отзывы, рекомендации, популярные авторы.

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  20. 20
    Hugendubel hugendubel.de German 1 tracker

    Hugendubel Online-Shop: Bücher online kaufen | Hugendubel.de

    Buchhandlung Hugendubel: Über 15 Mio. Artikel - Bücher versandkostenfrei online bestellen - Lieferung auch in die Filiale

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what World Book adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
51 ms

Competitor map

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