CD Bibliography
This page lists books, periodicals, discs, and on-line information resources that pertain to compact disc development and production.
This very up-to-date book includes a good history timeline of CD-R & DVD-R, and a chapter about CD-R duplication contributed by this website's publisher.
The
Education of A CD-ROM Publisher
Publish Yourself on CD-ROM
Electronic Publishing
on CD-ROM CD
Recordable Handbook: A guide to Choosing the Right CD Recorder for You, 2nd
ed. 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 A complete review of paperless publishing techniques and tools. Includes a Windows-compatible CD-ROM with the full text of the book in HTML form as well as demos and trial software resources. The book also discusses intellectual property issues important to electronic publishers, and has tips for marketing and advertising as well as creating e-books and more.
The
CD-ROM Directory: 1996 Edition
Beyond Computing
CD-ROM Professional, now named
EMedia ProfessionalDVD
Report
Multimedia Producer
NewMedia
Tape/Disc Business
These links are to CD & DVD production related pages that don't seem to fit anywhere else in our site. Be sure to look for other links in pages throughout this site.
Karl Bunker has written a clever C program that cleans up and controls the appearance of windows and icons on a Mac HFS CD-ROM. OS8 compatible.
This page has a link to download a copy of Apple's Enhanced CD Fact Book
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.)
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-Recordable FAQs and articles
CD-ROM Recording Services. Their site contains a good glossary of CD terminology.
A presentation by John van Bogart of the National Media Lab at a Library of Congress Symposium for archivists, September 21, 1995.
DVD Special Interest Group homepage
Finder file of multimedia and CD developers
by Grant Erickson. An excellent discussion of the most-neglected component of the CD system. [URL updated 2/15/99]
News and commentary about the multimedia community
Multimedia developer resource, with a searchable directory of Canadian developers
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.
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.
A collection of USENET postings pertinent to CD production, particularly digital audio
Articles about audio CD engineering and production
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 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.)
A very extensive list of links to information on this topic that concerns all publishers and users of recordable CDs.
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.
CompuServe's CD-ROM [GO CDFORUM] forums
CDROMBase
Online
AIIM
Standards Status Report
Specification
for "El Torrito" Bootable CDs
The "Color Books" CD Standards Documents owned
by Philips
ISO
9660:1988
ISO/IEC 13346:1995
Also see Howard Kaikow's page
announcing the release of ISO/IEC 13346 and 13490.
ISO/IEC 13490:1995
Also see Howard Kaikow's page
announcing the release of ISO/IEC 13346 and 13490.
ISO/IEC
10149:1995
ANSI IT9.21
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