Katherine W. (Cochrane) Prawl

Founder and President of The CD-Info Company, Katherine was active in the CD industry from around 1989 to 2006. She has written articles for several industry publications, including Metatec's Nautilus CD-ROM Multimedia magazine, CD-ROM Professional (now eMedia Professional), Tape/Disc Business magazine and medialine. In 1992 she opened The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc., the first U.S. licensee of The One-Off CD Shop, Inc. of Calgary, AB Canada. In mid-1995 that company's name was changed to The CD-Info Company, and the type of business changed from CD recording services to electronic and print publishing and consulting about Compact Disc industry, techology and applications.

Along with eBook, CD-ROM, DVD and Web authoring & publishing, and writing about electronic publishing, Katherine participates in seminars and conferences and was a working member of the IT9-5 technical committee. She is an invited member of the Gerson Lehrman Group's Council of Communications & Technology Advisors, and she is also represented by the Silicon Valley Expert Witness Group. She served as a member of the SIGCAT Technical Advisory Group for their initial CD-R testing project. An independent technologist and amateur historian, she is available for consultations and speaking engagements about CD-R/DVD-R and CD-ROM/DVD production, electronic publishing and the CD/DVD industry.

Currently, Katherine is deeply involved in the developing field of Virtual Worlds. She has a new technical blog on the topic, and is active in SecondLife™, where she is co-founder of the International Spaceflight Museum and Qwaq-SL Liaison groups.

Katherine lives in Saint Joseph, Missouri USA.

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The CD Information Center
History-eBooks
NewMedia on the Go