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#804 #Magazines to ROMs Message #901
Ed, Interesting questions, and some that I'm researching myself at this time. The basic question to ask is if publishing a "magazine" digitally will add value to the magazine. The successful titles will not be a replication of the magazine in CD-ROM form, but something new. Personnel will depend on…
Vernon, >>>I suspect that most people, even those who are fairly sophisticated computer users, have heard of Cinemania and not much else…
John, I don't know what part of EB published the Berenstain Bears, but their main hq is in Chicago. Number for Customer Service is (312) 347-7005. Main swbd is (312) 347-7000. jay
#52180 CD-ROM Publishing Message #52386
Jerry, Thanks. Dataware's pricing is out of my league, even if they "are" cross-platform. jay
#CD-ROM Publishing Message #52121
Jerry, intercepting this thread, and quoting: >>Currently there is no commercial software on the market that I know of which allows for multi platform discs
#51445 CD-ROM for Newspaper Message #51464
Paul, >>Next week, take a look at the ZCI section in the CD-ROM Forum.
#50437- CD-ROM for Newspaper Message #50975
Paul, Was interested in your announcement of being close to publishing bi-weekly CD-ROM magazines. How complex are they? Text & graphics? What about video /audio? How much control do you exercise over the content files, etc.? Is this supplied by someone else, or are you responsible for the interface, etc?…
#50316- CD-ROM PUBLISHING Message #50974
Jerry, Intercepting your thread here. Do I read correctly that you are using Stacker (or other disk compression utility) to compress files to put on CD-ROM? I'm assuming that the premastering software doesn't do anything weird to the files, and that the end-user needs Stacker to read the compressed files…