From: Technical Communication | Date: February 1, 1997| Author: Bayer, Nancy L. | COPYRIGHT 1997 Society for Technical Communication. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

According to Jakob Nielsen, the purpose of Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond is to provide an overview of a multitude of multimedia and hypertext systems so that readers can make informed decisions about whether hypertext meets their authoring needs and which hypertext system would best meet their requirements. The book delivers much more than this but also much less than we have come to expect from Nielsen, a well-known leader in user interface design and usability fo...