When Philips Media launched the Benelux exclusive 'Interactieve Encyclopedia' on CD-i, a special deluxe leather-look packaging was designed to make it look closer to the book version of an encyclopedia. Philips even started a promotional campaign to trade in your paper encyclopedia to get a discount on this digital edition. It is one of the most beautiful CD-i packagings we've ever seen, that is for sure. In the end, according to the sales figures by the Dutch Philips Media Benelux publisher, this encyclopedia was one of the best running Dutch CD-i releases. It gained enough profit to explore new CD-i projects similar to this encyclopedia approach and even beyond the Benelux territories. In 1996, the first follow-up was released: The Philips Media Medische Encyclopedie.
But more editions were planned. To this end, Philips Media developed the 'Philips Media Total Cycling Encyclopedia' on CD-i and CD-ROM around 1996-1997. This version was full of bicycles on road, track, including mountainbikes and for racing as well. It included an overview of wheels, frames and other components. There was even a CD-Online link with tour schemes planned. In the end, this product was never released, due to the fact Philips Media stopped their CD-i business around the same time.
[source available at Interactive Dreams]