This new edition contains a major section on producing, using and understanding CD-ROMs that answers every user's questions, from the simplest to the toughest. The book covers everything from applications and multimedia to compatibility and hardware issues. The applications section has been expanded to over three times that of the previous edition.

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Helps you understand and evaluate CD-ROM's vast potential for your business or library. Thorough and practical, the book gives you an overview of CDs and how they are being extended into new and diversified uses. You'll also find a straightforward, objective examination of cost, advanced hardware "how-to" tips, software development considerations, database preparation for pre-mastering, and how to begin, install, and run your own CD-ROM project.

of the major brands of CD-ROMs. Includes information not found in hardware manuals about Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 installations. The enclosed CD contains CD-ROM utilities, demos, specs, resource lists for Internet user groups and CD-ROM manufacturers--plus the entire text and illustrations of the book.