Unexpectedly, however, the rise of the Internet in the late 1990s sparked a wildfire of enthusiasm for creating websites and webpages, and Netizens around the world proved delighted to share information for free. This short-circuited the once promising outlook for DVD books.
只是誰也沒想到，90 年代後期異軍突起的網際網路，掀起了網站、網頁架設的熱潮，全球網友樂於免費分享資訊，因而中斷了光碟電子書的美好前景。