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Article: COMPACT DISCS: PUBLISHING'S NEXT MIRACLE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 13, 1988
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There's more than music on compact discs these days, but you
can't hear it . . . yet.
Instead of sound there are text and pictures -- 125,000 pages
worth in a disc that is a cousin of the audio compact disc. That's
enough to put the New York and Boston telephone directories on a
single disc or a small encyclopedia with color photographs and
illustrations. Together with a personal computer, the combination
is an electronic book, a reference work that dramatically speeds up
the search for information.
From book publishers and software firms to multinational
corporations and entrepreneurs, compact disc technology with its
vast storehouse of information is becoming a promising publishing ...