bookware
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bookware (uncountable)
- (computing) Software that is published in, or distributed with, a book.
- 1984, Michael Nicita, Ronald Petrusha, The reader's guide to microcomputer books:
- This was especially true of BASIC program anthologies, a particularly important area of bookware for TI owners.
- 1995, Craig Hunt, Networking personal computers with TCP/IP:
- The problem with bookware is that it quickly gets out of date.
- 1996, Steve Rimmer, Windows and OS/2 bitmapped graphics:
- The suite of bookware applications on the companion CD-ROM for this book illustrates a group of applications that use a common collection of DLLs.