In the early 1990s, Microsoft and Intel began promoting multimedia computers. This time, the major US and UK publishers jumped on the bandwagon and began developing multimedia CDs as a new take on the e-book.
90 年代初，美國微軟和英特爾公司推動多媒體電腦，多媒體光碟又成為另一種電子書的想像；這次，英美的大出版社都曾積極投入，開發多媒體光碟。