...Ruey‐Shun Chen; C.C. Chen The library CD‐ROM database with its enormous storage and retrieving from network capabilities, has been gradually replacing some of its printed counterparts. But one of the disadvantages is that it can only access the full‐text image CD‐ROM database via local area network...

... of respondents (96.3 per cent) considered an electronic book to be “a multimedia CD‐ROM book accessible via a desktop computer”. Multimedia was an important feature of an electronic book for these respondents, with the five most common choices being the five variations on multimedia documents. Furthermore, texts...