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Tuesday, August 25th, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Comtex Joins Forces With SoftBook Comtex has announced an alliance with SoftBook Press. SoftBook is set to roll-out its line of electronic books this Fall, breaking ground in the long anticipated E-book market. Comtex, a wholesale news aggregator, enhances and categorizes global newswires enabling financial and business re-sellers to use Comtex' products to provide breaking news and analysis. SoftBook users will receive a selection of Comtex' Newsroom products, including the most recent Newsroom addition -- Newsroom Industry Updates. News from areas such as business, government, finance and publishing will be accessible to SoftBook's customers. "Comtex delivers breaking news by key industry segments from over 45 separate global news wires. This is an exciting opportunity for us to provide our customers with a critical mass of intelligence from one relationship," commented Tom Pomeroy, co-founder and Chief Publishing Officer of SoftBook. Charles Terry, Comtex' President and CEO, responded, "By enhancing SoftBook's product with Comtex' headline news, their users have electronic access to a virtual library and today's news through a state-of-the-art electronic book." Founded in 1996, by James Sachs and Thomas Pomeroy, SoftBook Press Inc. is a provider of paperless publishing technologies and electronic reading devices. The company's flagship product, SoftBook, is an electronic book, designed for reading digital copies of published materials that are downloaded using the Internet. SoftBook Press also operates the SoftBook Network, a system for publishers and other third parties to securely distribute their content to SoftBook Owners. SoftBook Press, Inc. is a privately held company based in Menlo Park, California. Imagine Media Launches PC Accelerator Magazine Imagine Media Inc., a publisher of computer and interactive entertainment magazines, has announced the launch of PC Accelerator, a monthly PC game magazine aimed at the emerging generation of hardcore PC gamers. The magazine has nationwide distribution through Curtis Circulation. Through this affiliation with Curtis, Imagine is able to guarantee an initial audit of 100,000 readers for the new magazine. "PC Accelerator will define the emerging accelerated PC game market in its infancy and guide this very enthusiastic, affluent sector of the game market into the year 2000," said Caroline Simpson-Bint, publisher of PC Accelerator. "PC gamers can now experience the gameplay once exclusive to console gamers, but with better graphics and sound. PC Accelerator will be their bible." Led by long-time Ultra Gameplayers editor, Mike Salmon, PC Accelerator will bring a younger, more attitude-heavy take to the market than do existing PC game titles. Salmon states, "Rarely in the magazine business does an editor get to create a magazine aimed specifically at his or her own demographic. I'm not only the editor of PC Accelerator, I'm also a member of its target audience! PC Accelerator is about games and the people who play them. We will strike an immediate kinship with these gamers, giving them a magazine that speaks their language." Imagine Media Inc., founded in 1994, is a privately held company headquartered in Brisbane, CA. Imagine produces market-leading print magazines and Web communities that focus on business, computing, electronic entertainment and the Internet. Its eight print magazines include Business 2.0, Game Buyer, MacAddict, Maximum PC, Next Generation, PC Accelerator, PC Gamer and PSM. JAMTV and The Source Announce Partnership JAMTV Corporation and The Source, a popular music magazine, announced a partnership for bringing hip-hop music online. The companies are collaborating to launch TheSource.com, a hip-hop fan's online resource: a website devoted to hip-hop music, culture and politics. "Historically, The Source magazine has been the only way hip-hop fans could get news about today's most significant youth culture," said Jeff Jones, the magazine's associate publisher. "Now even fans in markets without hip-hop radio will have on-demand access to hip-hop music and videos, as well as up-to-the-minute news at TheSource.com." Under the terms of the exclusive, multi-year agreement, JAMTV will create, host and maintain TheSource.com; The Source will provide music news and columns, as well as archives of artist bios and photos, feature articles, interviews, columns and reviews. TheSource.com will feature music news, videos on demand, background information on artists, concert/tour updates, live concert and event webcasts, and the ability to buy CDs, merchandise and concert tickets. The website will also give readers of the magazine the opportunity to interact with The Source columnists through live chats and message boards. The site will include an Interactive Game Community where users can try out versions of new interactive games. Morningstar.Net Adds Online and Custom E-Mail News Features Three new features are now available on Morningstar.Net, the website of Morningstar, Inc., the Chicago-based investment research and analysis firm. Morningstar.Net recently added new content and features to its premium service, including Dow Jones Online News, portfolio e-mail alerts and top market news updates. "Online investors want reliable, quality sources for their investment news, and they want timely e-mail delivery of the important information that will affect their investment decisions," said Cebra Graves, editor of Morningstar.Net, "The addition of Dow Jones Online News gives Morningstar.Net users access to one of the most trusted names in financial publishing, and the new e-mail alerts give investors timely notification of the stories that are moving securities they own." Under an agreement with Dow Jones Interactive Publishing, Morningstar.Net premium service members will now have access to hundreds of news stories each day from Dow Jones Online News, augmenting news stories reported by Morningstar's news team. Members also have the option to receive daily e-mail alerts on news, events and price updates that affect any or all of the portfolios that they track on the site. End-of-day e-mail market reports help investors keep up with market movements, breaking stock stories, and developments in the mutual fund industry. Oakland Metro Business Journal Coming This Fall H. Jeffery Harris, President of Par Communications, LLC dba East Bay Business Journal Inc. announced plans for a new publication -- the Oakland Metro Business Journal. Harris said, "For the past 18 months we have sought a strategic alliance in media that would not only bring additional capital to our business but strengthen our offering to the marketplace. Our search for this alliance has been successful." The East Bay Business Journal, first published on October 18, 1996, as a weekly tabloid size newspaper, will cease publication, according to Harris. The Oakland Metro Business Journal is scheduled to begin operation in the fourth quarter of this year. Published weekly, The Oakland Metro Business Journal -- which will acquire the assets of the East Bay Business Journal, including its paid subscribers, who will all be recipients of annual subscriptions to the new paper -- will cover the area from Richmond to Fremont, with special attention being given to Oakland and the rapidly growing Fremont, Alameda and Emeryville markets. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
