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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]
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 .
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.
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 ]
When the icon appeared in the story, the reader could press a button on the side to hear the sound effect. These are called “sound books.” Books that had accompanying cassette tapes (or even CDs), usually known as books on tape, are another early example of this. Once computers became more prevalent, CD-ROM versions of books became popular.
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 .
The White Book refers to a standard of compact disc that stores pictures and video. CD-i Bridge [18] - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs. VCD (Video) – a standard jointly developed and published by JVC, Matsushita, Philips and Sony. [19]
One of the earliest and most well-known was Microsoft Encarta, [3] first introduced on CD-ROM and then also moving online along with other major reference works. In the dictionaries market, one of the more prolific brands was Merriam-Webster , which released CD-ROM and then online versions of English dictionaries, thesauri and foreign language ...