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Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM : Authoring, Development, and Distribution

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This book is highly informative, although focused for CD-ROM only. It provides a good basic overview, especially with detail of the production process regarding how CD-ROMs are made. The book is clearly written and presents a strong, commonsense content and menu development methodology.

The book describes the process of developing specifically for CD-ROM. That is, it assumes that the CD-ROM is only distribution media and that the content will essentially be used from the CD-ROM.

The focus is also on designing a CDROM-centric version from scratch. The content development methodology that is explained in the book may be less applicable to a high number of CD-ROM uses where the CD-ROM is just one of several types of distribution media for the content. For example, many information development organizations are focusing on content management repositories that generate output for Web, print, and CD-ROM from a single source. The methodology that is outlined in the book may be less applicable to those purposes.

Nonetheless, if you are developing content that will have customized menus and run solely from the CD-ROM, this book gives a good foundation in the basics.

For all uses of CD-ROM, the book covers the manufucaturing of CD-ROMS in detail, and this is valuable for production coordinators and managers, as the manufacturing process can be confusing. I found this discussion of the production process to be most enlightening and difficult to find elsewhere.