Directmedia Publishing Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The German publishing house Directmedia Publishing was created in January 1995 by Ralf Szymanski and Erwin Jurschitza as a publisher of digital media.The emphasis of the publishing house's content lies within the field of digital libraries, particularly scientific collections of texts, and encyclopaedias.
In co-operation with the Reclam publishing house in Stuttgart, Directmedia Publishing published the series Reclam Klassiker auf CD-ROM (Reclam classical authors on CD-ROM), which presents individual works of the German language literary canon. Electronic publication of the German language Wikipedia on CD-ROM is planned for October 2004.
Directmedia's sister enterprise, The Yorck Project (based in Yorck road, Berlin), specialises in the publication of CDs or DVDs with extensive picture collections including art, photography and historical illustrations. The software runs under Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.