Spring 1999. Mary Kay Duggan
History 280B. Transitions in Media

Assignment 2. Print to Digital. Examples

DISSERTATIONS Virginia Tech (see Systems Science 1999, E. Fox)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Microsoft Encarta (available on DVD), Encyclopedia Britannica

DICTIONARY
Merriam-Webster, CD-ROM.

Word processing software: Word, Word Perfect

BIBLE CD-ROMs at GTU; web full-text searching (www.1stbaptist.org, for example)

BOOK TRADE Amazon.com,Books-in-Print (www.booksinprint.com, beta),Barnes & Noble, global access

FACSIMILE EDITIONS
Octavo

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS FOR READING/ANNOTATING
Acrobat

HARDWARE SYSTEMS FOR READING
Rocket E-Book, Softbook

FULL-TEXT PERIODICALS; NEWS"PAPERS"

PERIODICAL INDEX/ABSTRACT/FULL TEXT

NEW GENRES
Geneology, games, digital archives, virtual reality (simulators), Yahoo, pre-prints

WORD PROCESSING
Impact on author, style, product

ONLINE MANUALS
web authoring tools

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