Interactive CD-ROM features zoomable digital color images, entire book text

The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual®, Fifth Edition, authored by Scott A. Travers and published by Random House, is now available as an interactive CD-ROM software program. The multi-media computer version, optimized for Microsoft Windows XP, features “every single word and photograph from this essential book,” according to Tom Bilotta, president of Carlisle Development, the computer software publisher. Random House Information Group granted a license to Carlisle to produce software based on the book.

“But the most extraordinary aspect, aside from bringing this landmark work to personal computer users, is the use of over 260 digital color and black & white images,” Bilotta added. The software program will allow the user to zoom in on images for close inspection of grade-sensitive areas—and to carefully examine the surfaces of coins that are counterfeit, doctored or altered.

“This is the software version of the most important book I have ever written” declared Scott A. Travers, New York City author, dealer and consumer advocate. The new Survival Manual reveals trade secrets on how to make money and avoid mistakes in the $3-billion-a-year rare coin marketplace. (more…)