How to Create a highly-profitable CD-ROM or DVD and Earn a Full Time Income—Anybody can do it!

The CD-ROM and DVD section of this Website provides information on the various aspects of:

Writing and selecting Content
Compiling with good Navigation
Creating with Authoring Software
Publishing
Marketing and
Promoting this product.

You can also learn more about the massive commercial market in your own area that is largely untapped; it is an area where an entrepreneur with very little capital can make an execellent full or part-time income.

What is a CD-ROM?

The name CD-ROM is an acronym for Compact Disc — Read Only Memory. It is a thin metallic coated plastic disc with a high storage capacity of 650 to 700 megabytes that uses laser optic technology to read the data.

Your home computer can be equipped with a CD-ROM burner that can easily create high a quality CD-ROM, which can contain many forms of information, including: Data, Audio, Movie, Images, Photographs, and more.

For personal use, you can store information on a CD-ROM with R-W capacity that enables you to write over existing data. Many people use these for backing up data, or storage of information for the future.

Although the CD-ROM industry is less than ten years old, the technology has largely been superceded by the DVD — Digital Video Disc. The popular single layered version can store up to 8.5 gigabytes of data, and the double layered version can store 17 gigabytes.

Compilation CD-ROM

There is a growing market for CD-ROM compilations, which can include a selection of eBooks in a specific genre. These can be sold on the Internet and through more traditional channels of mail order and retail shops.

The rapid development of digital cameras that take high quality photographs and movie, it is now possible for the small business to produce photographs and video clips for inclusion on a CD-ROM.

This means that your 'How To...' eBook can now be developed and marketed as an interactive CD-ROM.

The active feature of a compilation CD-ROM is the Index or Contents page, which is linked to each program or eBook.

The sales price of this genre will range from £29.95 to £99 and more.

Interactive CD-ROM/DVD

You need authoring software to develop a professional interactive CD-ROM or DVD that will respond rapidly and accurately to input from the user.

There are numerous opportunities for developing this kind of product for clients you find on the Internet and local business people and organisations.

An interactive CD-ROM can be a development of an eBook and contain many show-me examples, or it can be a self-contained Course or Tutorial. The Student is required to complete numerous assignments and tests on the CD-ROM, which can maintain their score.

A good interactive CD-ROM is the perfect teaching tool because the Student can access it on their own computer and complete the Course in their own time. The sales price of this genre will range from £99 to £399 and more.

Added Value

The interactive CD-ROM often contains very similar information to a compilation CD-ROM or an eBook or series of eBooks on the same subject. However, it will command a much higher sales price.

This is because of the added value of interaction and tutoring, which are integral parts of this version of CD-ROM.