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CRUNCH TIME FOR CD-ROM MAKERS...
...such as Girl Games and Her Interactive, two new developers of multimedia titles for girls, are cheering Barad on. "Mattel can do some great things to expand that market for all of us," says Mauricio Polack, director of sales and marketing for Her Interactive, which last year unveiled a CD-ROM called McKenzie & Co. that is based on high school life. "Mattel is riding on our coattails to a certain extent," Polack says, "and then we'll ride on Mattel...
Sales of Japanese cars equipped with cd-rom and satellite navigation systems are already surging--from 306,000 in 1994 to a projected 750,000 this year. Electronics and software account for 20% of the sticker price of today's new models, up from 5% less than 30 years ago. By 2005, a government advisory panel predicted this spring, Japan's market for information equipment in automobiles will be worth $6.2 billion annually...
...such a project may seem a noble but obsolete gesture, like the last cavalry charge of World War I--print doing what it does best against overwhelming odds. But it's nothing of the kind. For several reasons, a work like this cannot be done online or on a CD-ROM at present. Analytical knowledge of this order only runs through the pages of books...
Will the dictionary turn into a CD-ROM or arrive on the Internet? Little chance at present. Current search engines are not sophisticated enough to work properly with so vast a project on the Internet. And the big software companies with a foot in encyclopedic publishing are not currently interested in risky and expensive ventures on the scale of this project. For instance, Microsoft's CD-ROM on the collection of Britain's National Gallery is a once-over-lightly affair, with some useful student-level cross-references but no real scholarly depth; the same company's Encarta encyclopedia...