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Britannica.com Inc. announced plans to introduce a premium subscription service on its redesigned reference Web site. Customers will be required to pay $5 a month or $50 a year for access to the full text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been available free since the site launched in October 1999. With this move, the full Britannica will no longer be available free anywhere. On the Britannica.com site, the encyclopedia will form the basis of a new paid premium service. Later in the year, other databases, such...