Yellow Book (CD standard)

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Red Book (CD Digital Audio) Yellow Book (CD-ROM and CD-ROM XA) Orange Book (CD standard) (CD-R and CD-RW) White Book (Video CD) Blue Book (Enhanced CD, CD+G and CD-Plus) Beige Book (Photo CD) Green Book (CD-i standard) (CD-i) Purple Book (DDCD) Scarlet Book (Super Audio CD)

The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips was the first extension of the Red Book.

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The Yellow Book itself is not freely available. However, its content corresponds to the ISO/IEC 10149 and ECMA 130 standards; the latter can be downloaded at

• Standard ECMA-130: Data Interchange on Read-only 120 mm Optical Data Disks (CD-ROM)