CD Bibliography
This page lists books, periodicals, discs, and on-line information resources that pertain to compact disc development and production.
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Books
- The Education of A CD-ROM Publisher
- CD-ROM for Schools
- Publish Yourself on CD-ROM
- Recordable CD Bible NEW!
- Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM NEW!
- Creating Interactive CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh
- The New Optical Storage Technology
- A Guide to Optical Storage Technology
- Create Your Own Multimedia System
- Computers and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Manager's Guide
- CD-ROM Fundamentals
- CD-ROM Professional's CD-Recordable Handbook
- New Rider's Guide to CD-ROM, 2nd ed.
- The Compact Disc Handbook, 2nd ed.
- Principles of Digital Audio, 3rd ed.
- The Complete Guide to Recordable CD
- Super CD-ROM Madness!
- CD-ROM Handbook
- The CD-ROM Directory: 1996 Edition
The Education of A CD-ROM Publisher
- Author: Christopher Andrews
Publication Date: 1993
Publisher: Pemberton Press/Eight Bit Books
ISBN: 0-910965-10-2
- An insider's look at the early days of CD-ROM authoring & publishing.
- CD-ROM for Schools
- Authors: Pam Berger & Susan Kinnell
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: Pemberton Press
ISBN: 0-910965-13-7
- How to choose, buy and use CD-ROM in your school, two top school media professionals.
- Publish Yourself on CD-ROM
- Authors: Fabrizio Caffarelli & Deirdre Straughan
Publication Date: 1992
- Recordable CD Bible
- Author: Mark L. Chambers
Publication Date: 1997
Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide
ISBN: 0-76453-103-4 - This new book is directed mainly toward Windows95 and Windows NT users, but the accompanying CD-ROM includes demo software for several platforms, and some full versions.
- Electronic Publishing on CD-ROM
- Authors: Steve Cunningham and Judson Rosebush
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN: 1-56592-209-3 - This book is reviewed in our CD Webstore site
- CD Recordable Handbook: A guide to Choosing the Right CD Recorder for You, 2nd ed.
- Author: Robert DeMoulin Toshi Iizuka, Rod Volturno and Ricoh DMS Division, Japan
Publication Date: 1994 & 1995
Publisher: Ricoh Corporation
Ricoh P/N 28363-002
- Although written as a marketing piece, this 93 page booklet (with a 12 page glossary!) is an excellent introduction to CD-Recording. There is an on-line version of this book at http://www.octave.com/library/ricoh/handbook.html.
- Creating Interactive CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh
- Author: Scott Fisher
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: AP Professional
- Includes CD-ROM, step-by-step tutorials.
- The New Optical Storage Technology
- Author: John A. McCormick
Publication Date: July 1993
Publisher: Business-ONE Irwin (now Times-Mirror Education Division)
ISBN: 1-55623-907-6
- An early work that includes CD-ROM and CD-R.
- A Guide to Optical Storage Technology
- Author: John A. McCormick
Publication Date: 1990
Publisher: Business-ONE Irwin (now Times-Mirror Education Division)
ISBN: 1-55623-320-5
- A very early work in the field, of historical interest.
- Create Your Own Multimedia System
- Author: John A. McCormick
Publisher: Windcrest/McGraw-Hill
- This book is about building a multimedia creation workstation, not about a home multimedia system.
- Computers and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Manager's Guide
- Author: John A. McCormick
Publication Date: August 1993
Publisher: Windcrest/McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-8306-4445-8 (paperback)
ISBN: 0-8306-4444-X (hardback)
- Contains coverage of CD-ROM Technology, and discusses topics such as universal access to data.
- CD-ROM Fundamentals
- Authors: Dana Parker & Robert Starrett
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company, Danvers, MA
ISBN: 0-87709-168-4
- A slim paperback, primarily devoted to CD-ROM technology, this book is suitable for use as a supplementary textbook or as an introduction for those interested in the production of CD-ROMs.
- CD-ROM Professional's CD-Recordable Handbook
- Authors: Dana Parker & Robert Starrett
Publication Date: 1996 (pending)
Publisher: Pemberton Press
ISBN: 0-910965-18-8
- Publication due in April 1996. Extensive treatment of the entire CD-R field by two leading experts.
- New Rider's Guide to CD-ROM, 2nd ed.
- Authors: Dana Parker & Robert Starrett
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1-56205-308-6
- Excellent, technically accurate
- The Compact Disc Handbook, 2nd ed.
- Author: Ken C. Pohlmann
Publication Date: 1992
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0-89579-300-8
- The CD manufacturing bible, heavy on theory.
- Principles of Digital Audio, 3rd Ed.
- Author: Ken C. Pohlmann
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-050469-5 (softcover); 0-07-050469-7 (hardbound)
- An excellent technical reference for both digital audio and CD basics, such as questions about disc specifications, formats, and for understanding things like Reed-Solomon Interleave Code and EDC/ECC (error detection code/error correction code) as well as how CDs are made. This is not exactly a sequel to Pohlmann's Compact Disc Handbook, but is much more up to date and covers a lot of the same material and more. Very highly recommended.
- Super CD-ROM Madness!
- Author: Lee Purcell
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Macmillan/SAMS Publishing
ISBN: 0-672-30638-7 - The Complete Guide to Recordable CD
- Author: Lee Purcell
Publication Date: 1st Qtr 1997
Publisher: SYBEX, Inc.
ISBN: 0-7821-1994-8 - This forthcoming book on Recordable CD includes an appendix containing several interviews with industry participants, including the publisher of this website.
- CD-ROM Handbook, 2nd edition
- Author: Chris Sherman, Editor
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Intertext Publications, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
ISBN: 0-07-056693-3
- This collection of articles on the history of CD-ROM and CD-Recordable is heavily technical, but authoritative. Contributors include Linda Helgerson, Allen Adkins, Philip Busk, Arch Luther and many other pioneers in the field.
- The CD-ROM Directory: 1996 Edition
- Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: TFPL Multimedia
Magazines & Journals
- Beyond Computing
- CD-ROM Professional (now EMedia Professional)
- DVD Report
- Multimedia Producer
- NewMedia
- Tape/Disc Business
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- Publisher: Beyond Computing
P.O. Box 3014
Northbrook, Ill. 60065-9984
URL: http://www.beyondcomputingmag.com - CD-ROM Professional, now named EMedia Professional
- Publisher: OnLine/Pemberton Press, Inc.
462 Danbury Road
Wilton, CT 06897-2126
Phone: (+1) 203-761-1466
Fax: (+1) 203-761-1444
Gopher: online.lib.uic.edu
URL: http://www.onlineinc.com/emedia/index.html - DVD Report
- Publisher: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.
701 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604-3098 USA
Phone: (+1) 914-328-9157
Fax: (+1) 914-328-9093
Email: kipimktg@kipi.com
URL: http://www.kipinet.com - Multimedia Producer
- Publisher: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.
701 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604-3098 USA
Phone: (+1) 914-328-9157
Fax: (+1) 914-328-9093
Email: KIPIMKTG@KIPI.com or mmediapro@aol.com
URL: http://www.kipinet.com - NewMedia
- Publisher: HyperMedia Communications, Inc.
901 Mariner's Island Blvd., Suite 365
San Mateo, CA 94404 USA
Phone: (+1) 415-573-5170
Fax: (+1) 415-573-5131
Web: http://www.hyperstand.com - Tape/Disc Business
- Publisher: Knowledge Information Publishing Services
Phone: 800-800-5474
Fax.: (+1) 914-328-2024
Web: http://www.kipinet.com/
Email Lists
- Adaptec CD-R Listserv
Need support or have questions about Adaptec Software Product Group's CD-R products? Sign up for the listserv in their website. With one of the most helpful and responsive support teams online, Adaptec has a winner here.
- NCT Web Magazine
- CD-ROM Online
To subscribe to email version, send email to: CDRMag@nsimultimedia.com with "subscribe" as the only text in the message
Other Internet Links
- Enhanced CD Format explained well, and a lot of good QuickTime flicks as well.
- The DVD link list on Robert Lundemo Aas' page is very extensive and informative.
- Graeme Bennett's "Recordable CDs" page in The Computer Paper (TCP) website has an intelligent article about CD-R with comments about several current systems, and links to more CD related pages in the same site.
- Jim Taylor's DVD Corner contains an excellent, current FAQ about DVD technology.
- Fernando Cassia's OS/2 HP SureStore CD-R FAQ
- Apple Multimedia Program Interactive Music Track
- This page has a link to download a copy of Apple's Enhanced CD Fact Book
- CD-i FAQ
- DRT Mastering
- David Torrey's page includes an FAQ about audio mastering (which means something different from the process of making a glass master for replicating CDs.)
- What is CD-DA?
- This is another page about audio CDs. It has links to some shareware for DOS, Windows amd Linux for testing various CD-ROM drives' ability to read "raw" audio discs, and asks users to report results using the survey form in the site. Results of the survey are posted on a companion page. Link updated 5/29/97
- CD-Plus FAQ
- CD-ROM Info
- CD Archive Information Page
- CD-Recordable FAQs and articles
- C|Net CD-ROM Reviews
- DataSafe, Inc.
- CD-ROM Recording Services. Their site contains a good glossary of CD terminology.
- Recovery of Damaged Magnetic Tape and Optical Disk Media
- A presentation by John van Bogart of the National Media Lab at a Library of Congress Symposium for archivists, September 21, 1995.
- IMA Digital Video Disc
- DVD Special Interest Group homepage
- Developer's Database
- Finder file of multimedia and CD developers
- A Fundamental Introduction to the Compact Disc Player
- by Grant Erickson. An excellent discussion of the most-neglected component of the CD system.
- Multimedia Wire
- News and commentary about the multimedia community
- MultiMediator - Canada's Multimedia Guide
- Multimedia developer resource, with a searchable directory of Canadian developers
- New Media
- An excellent review of CD-R systems is online in their "Features and Reviews" section. The Feb 96 issue will have reviews of 6x CD-ROM readers.
- SIGCAT's Web site
- The oldest and largest CD-ROM organization, founded in 1986. Also see their listing in the "Organizations" page of this site.
- Resource Guide on Distributed Media
- This guide relates to all aspects of integrating local and online information access. Such hybrid combinations of online and offline resources complement the inherent limitations of single-mode solutions to provide maximum power and economy, and are gaining increasing attention.
- Shawn Abbott's homepage
- This site contains some papers on the issues of encryption, including using release software for distributing files via CD-ROM. Abbott is Chief Scientist of Rainbow Technologies, and was founder of the AND group, inc., who developed the first CD-ROM based release software, used in such products as Adobe's Type on Call discs.
- The Voodoo of CD Mastering
- A collection of USENET postings pertinent to CD production, particularly digital audio
- Digital Domain
- Articles about audio CD engineering and production
- Recording Audio Compact Discs on a PC
- A user's common sense description of audio CD recording in Greg Smith's homepage is well-written, easy to follow and technically accurate.
- This page has a link to download a copy of Apple's Enhanced CD Fact Book
Copyright and Intellectual Property Related Links
This information is very important to both CD developers and CD-R users.
- The DAT Tax
- This page has some interesting points to make about copyright laws as they pertain to recording, with a copy of The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. This law and proposed revisions of it may also apply to CD-Recordable since there is currently a movement to require a similar surcharge on CD-R media used to record audio discs (but don't take my word for it -- I am not a lawyer.)
- Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources
- A very extensive list of links to information on this topic that concerns all publishers and users of recordable CDs.
- RIAA's New Technology Head Offers Vision On Copyright & Piracy
- This article in the March 96 issue of the online version of Tape/Disc Business magazine has a discussion about how copyright laws apply specifically to CD-Recordable. The article features comments from David Stebbings, senior vice president of the technology division of The Recording Industry Association of America.
- This page has some interesting points to make about copyright laws as they pertain to recording, with a copy of The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992. This law and proposed revisions of it may also apply to CD-Recordable since there is currently a movement to require a similar surcharge on CD-R media used to record audio discs (but don't take my word for it -- I am not a lawyer.)
Commercial OnLine Services
- CompuServe's CD-ROM [GO CDFORUM] forums
- Frequented by many "old timers" of the industry -- people who have been using the technology for over a year ;-) To subscribe to CompuServe, go to http://www.compuserve.com
- CDROMBase Online
- Also on CompuServe, this is a compilation of information about more than 10,000 CD-ROM titles, created by Rich Bowers, who also holds the distinction of publishing the FIRST directory of CD-ROM titles in 1986.
Standards & Specifications
- AIIM Standards Status Report
- El Torrito Bootable CDs
- The "Color" Books
- ISO 9660:1988
- ISO/IEC 13346:1995
- ISO/IEC 13490:1995
- ISO/IEC 10149:1995
- AIIM Standards Status Report
- This webpage contains status reports on the publication of AIIM standards pertaining to imaging and document mangement, many being developed jointly with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
- Specification for "El Torrito" Bootable CDs
- The "Color Books" CD Standards Documents owned by Philips
- Bert Gall
- Philips Consumer Electronics
- Coordination Office Optical & Magnetic Media Systems
- Building SWA-109, P.O.Box 80002
- 5600 JB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Fax: +31 40 732113
- ISO 9660:1988
- Volume and file structure of CD-ROM for information interchange
- ISO/IEC 13346:1995
- Volume and file structure of write-once and rewritable media using non-sequential recording for information interchange. In five parts.
- Part 1: General
- Part 2: Volume and boot block recognition
- Part 3: Volume structure
- Part 4: File structure
- Part 5: Record structure
Also see Howard Kaikow's page announcing the release of ISO/IEC 13346 and 13490.
- ISO/IEC 13490:1995
- Volume and file structure of read-only and write-once compact disc media for information interchange.
- Part 1: General
- Part 2: Volume and File Structure
- Also see Howard Kaikow's page announcing the release of ISO/IEC 13346 and 13490.
- ISO/IEC 10149:1995
- Data interchange on read-only 120mm optical data disks (CD-ROM)
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