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Tuesday, October 13th, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Grolier Interactive Launches 1999 Reference Suite Grolier Interactive has announced the availability of a new family reference suite featuring the 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition, the Hammond Atlas of the World CD-ROM, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Expanded Multimedia Edition Version 2, and the Wall Street Journal Almanac CD-ROM. The five-disc 1999 Grolier Multimedia Reference Suite CD-ROM Edition is expected to be street priced at $79.99. The encyclopedia's 58,000 articles (36,000 disc-based and 22,000 available through the software's two online encyclopedias) are enriched with 163 high-quality videos; 15,000 images; 1,200 maps; and 15 hours of sound that aid in the learning process. The Hammond Atlas of the World CD-ROM offers digital maps in a wide variety of styles (political, physical and TerraScape) in a database of more than 250,000 names. The famous Bartlett's Familiar Quotations takes the original book's 22,000 textual quotations and enhances them by adding rich multimedia features such as graphics, audio, movie stills and video. The Wall Street Journal Almanac CD-ROM features extensive essays and analysis, charts, graphs, reports and statistics in a multimedia format. Grolier Interactive is part of Lagardere, an $11 billion international publishing, communications and technology company. Grolier Interactive Inc. is known for its award-winning CD-ROM and online titles found in homes, schools and libraries worldwide. New Request Magazine Feature Offers Music Expertise Request, a monthly music magazine, has introduced a "100 reviews" feature that will appear in each issue. Each month, beginning with the November 1998 issue, the magazine will review 100 different music albums. The reviews touch on all genres of music including rock, rap, R&B, techno, country, world, jazz, blues and classic. "The reviews reflect the diversity of music fans and our readers," said Karen Weium, publisher of Request Media, Inc. Each month, a brief synopsis of each of the 100 albums will be provided as well as a numerical rating assigned by the reviewer. "Request is committed to music, and the new feature sets the magazine aside as a music authority," said Weium. "'100 reviews' proves Request and its readers share a devout passion for music." Request is an all-music magazine covering many genres of music. It has been published monthly since July 1989, and has an ABC audited circulation of 500,000. Request is published by Request Media, Inc., a wholly owned division of Musicland Stores Corporation. Request can be reached on the Internet at http://www.requestline.com. Leonard P. Forman Named President and CEO of The New York Times Company Magazine Group The New York Times Company announced that Leonard P. Forman, senior vice president of corporate development, has been named president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company Magazine Group, effective immediately, succeeding James (Jay) W. FitzGerald. The announcement was made by Russell T. Lewis, president and chief executive officer, to whom Mr. Forman will report. In his new role, Mr. Forman will be responsible for the Magazine Group's publications: Golf Digest, Golf World and Golf Shop Operations. Mr. FitzGerald, who is retiring from day-to-day oversight of the Magazine Group, will serve in an advisory role for one year as chairman. Mr. Lewis said, "Our magazines are the leaders in their field in every measure: award-winning editorial, circulation leadership and financial profitability, and we intend to expand our lead in each of these areas. We salute Jay's accomplishments over the last 31 years which helped to bring this about. We are confident that Len's operating experience and strategic discipline, combined with the strong management team in place at the Group, will allow our golf related publications to reach even higher levels of accomplishment in the future." Mr. Forman, 53, rejoined The New York Times Company as senior vice president of corporate development in April 1996. Formerly, he had been director of planning for the Company from 1974 to 1986. In 1995 he served as president and chief executive officer of a Nynex/Newsday joint venture for an electronic service that ceased when both companies altered their electronic strategies. He then became a media consultant until he joined The Times Company. Information Security Magazine Launches Security Wire Daily Information Security magazine has launched Security Wire Daily, a daily online news service devoted entirely to information security topics and issues. Like Information Security magazine, Security Wire Daily is published by ICSA Inc., the security assurance company. The news service is available free to the public at www.infosecuritymag.com/securitywire. Each weekday, Security Wire will feature several articles focusing on the news, events and people shaping the infosecurity industry. Daily editions will also feature market news and analysis, product announcements and conference updates. Articles will be archived on a weekly basis within the same categories used by the print magazine's news section: News on the Cutting Edge, Off the Cuff, Market Monitor and On the Move. Security Wire will also include a column called CryptoRhythms, featuring commentary and analysis of the week-that- was in the world of cryptography. This column will appear every Friday. "Security Wire gives us the opportunity to offer round-the-clock coverage of the infosecurity industry," said Andrew Briney, editor-in-chief. "The monthly format of the printed magazine is ideal for longer features and op/ed columns. But for hot-off-the-press stories, Security Wire is a better medium. Together, the two venues provide our subscribers and the public with the industry's best one-two punch -- in-depth analysis and timely reporting." Based in Norwood, Information Security is distributed monthly to approximately 41,000 IT, MIS and information security professionals. The magazine is published by ICSA Inc. Based in Reston Va., ICSA provides security assurance services worldwide. For more information on Information Security and ICSA, visit www.icsa.net. Hitachi Digital Heibosha to Launch 2nd Edition of CD-ROM Encyclopedia in Japan Hitachi Digital Heibonsha Ltd., Publishers, has revised the first edition of the CD-ROM World Encyclopaedia Professional version. The company is to launch its second edition on October 23, at major PC and software shops nationwide. The encyclopedia will be available in two different types of packages: the professional and basic versions. This product contains in a single CD-ROM the contents of the 35 volumes of World Encyclopaedia, published by Heibonsha Ltd., Publishers, renowned for its comprehensive and maximum volume of information. The contents include texts of more than 70 million characters written by more than 7,000 contributors, who are top specialists in their respective fields, more than 10,000 detailed monochrome figures including structural drawings and illustrations of animals and plants, approximately 1,400 colored figures (200 for the retrieval disk), approximately 6,000 pieces of mathematical and chemical expressions, a world map, a map of Japan, an encyclopedic almanac, and an encyclopedic data book. The maps are fully detailed, showing geographic features. 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