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  2. Discis Knowledge Research - Wikipedia

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    Discis Books is a series of Interactive storybook by Discis Knowledge Research. [ 4 ] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "interactive storybooks" like Living Books ' Harry and the Haunted House series promoted "less reading comprehension in kids" than "moderately interactive, more fact-oriented" CD-ROMs like Discis Books’ Thomas’ Snowsuit .

  3. Compton's Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM (1989) was the first multimedia encyclopedia. [17] Grolier's earlier CD-ROM encyclopedia was not multimedia. The encyclopedia was founded by Frank E. Compton in 1922. Publishing rights to the F.E. Compton & Company products were acquired by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1961. [1]

  4. Interactive storybook - Wikipedia

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    An interactive storybook (or CD-ROM storybook) is a children's story packaged with animated graphics, sound or other interactive elements (e.g., word pronunciation). Such stories are usually published as software on CD-ROMs .

  5. Interactive children's book - Wikipedia

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    It wasn't until the late nineteenth century, partly due to the invention of industrial printing, that pop-ups were created. The first pop-up books published in America were those in the Showman Series published by the McLoughlin Brothers. [11] Still, these books were too expensive and fragile to be practical as children's books.

  6. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    For the first few years of its existence, the CD was a medium used purely for audio. In 1988, the Yellow Book CD-ROM standard was established by Sony and Philips, which defined a non-volatile optical data computer data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive.

  7. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]

  8. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    The CD-ROM was announced in 1984 [7] and introduced by Denon and Sony at the first Japanese COMDEX computer show in 1985. [8] In November 1985, several computer industry participants, including Microsoft , Philips , Sony , Apple and Digital Equipment Corporation , met to create a specification to define a file system format for CD-ROMs. [ 9 ]

  9. Living Books - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, Broderbund made the first of its two great contributions to the history of CD-ROM publishing by releasing, as the inaugural title in its children's software arm, Living Books: One of the first CD-ROMs ever, it was an interactive reading primer called Just Grandma and Me. "Living Books was our bet on CD-ROM as a delivery vehicle," says ...

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