Who Needs Electronic Books?

An Introduction to the Brave New World of
Electronic, Multimedia, Educational, Publishing...

Barry McMullin

School of Electronic Engineering
Dublin City University
Dublin 9
Ireland

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April 1994

©1994 Barry McMullin. All rights reserved. Electronic versions of this article are available, in various formats, free of charge for purposes of private study. Send Internet mail to McMullin@EENG.DCU.IE for further details.

• Prologue: To the Moon and Back...
• On Publishing "Media"
• Jargon Busting
  • The Joy of Multimedia
  • Of MPC's and CD-ROM's
  • So what can I buy in MPC right now?
• Internet: The Electronic Global Village
• The Bottom Line
  • Can Schools Afford This Technology?
  • Will the Benefits Really Materialise?
  • Too Many Pupils, Too Little Access?
• Epilogue: In the Year 2024...
• (Onward Links)
• About this document ...