Web versus CD-ROM: Format Follows Function.

Burg, Barbara; Kautzmann, Amy M.

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ERIC Number: EJ559784

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Web versus CD-ROM: Format Follows Function.

Burg, Barbara; Kautzmann, Amy M.

Searcher, v6 n1 p59-63 Jan 1998

Discusses differences between the World Wide Web and CD-ROMs, and future trends in usage of both technologies. Highlights include Web competition; a conceptual model of CD-ROMs; the CD-ROM marketplace; the Internet; speed of use; hybrid titles; the publisher; and DVD-ROM (Digital Videodisc). Concludes that the Web has certain advantages over CD-ROM but that the converse is also true. (AEF)

Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Futures (of Society), Information Industry, Information Sources, Information Technology, Optical Data Disks, Technological Advancement, User Needs (Information), World Wide Web

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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