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Monday, February 8, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Starbucks Coffee Company and Time Inc. Announce New Joint Publishing Agreement Starbucks Coffee Company and Time Inc.'s custom publishing division have announced a joint publishing agreement under which they will create a new magazine called Joe. The venture marks Starbucks debut into publishing and will reflect the thought-provoking conversations of the coffeehouse tradition. The first issue of Joe will be sold and exclusively distributed in most of Starbucks more than 1,800 retail stores across North America in June 1999. Two more issues are scheduled to appear later this year. The magazine will contain advertising, and selected excerpts from Joe will appear on Starbucks.com. "The coffeehouse has always been at the center of conversation, community and culture," said Howard Schultz, Starbucks Chairman and CEO. "With Joe, we want to encourage those traditions and re-invent them for today. In the process, we hope to give Starbucks customers the same rich and satisfying experience with the magazine that they've come to expect from our coffee." Inspired by the idea of coffeehouse culture itself, Joe will be targeted to readers of varied interests who enjoy books, film, art, opinion, travel and popular culture. Scott Mowbray, managing editor of Time Inc.'s custom publishing division, will be managing editor of Joe. Steven Henry Madoff will be executive editor and Lloyd Ziff will be creative director. Marvel Enterprises Appoints Winston Fowlkes as Publisher of Marvel Comics Marvel Enterprises, Inc. announced the appointed of Winston Fowlkes, age 66, as Publisher of Marvel Comics. Mr. Fowlkes has over 40 years of entrepreneurial and senior management experience in the publishing industry, including three decades at Time Incorporated. Eric Ellenbogen, President and CEO of Marvel, commented, "With the appointment of Winston Fowlkes, we have significantly upgraded Marvel's senior management team. Winston is a respected veteran of the publishing industry and brings Marvel extensive experience in developing and managing major content libraries. Comics are the creative foundation of our company, and Winston will be invaluable in managing that business as we leverage the popularity of our characters across all media, whether film, television or the Internet." Mr. Fowlkes commented, "I'm very pleased to play a major role in the new Marvel. Marvel's massive character library lends itself to a myriad of media, licensing and promotion opportunities and I believe the company has only just scratched the service in exploiting these assets. I look forward to working with Eric as we seek to maximize the full potential of the company's publishing division." From 1988 to 1997, Winston Fowlkes was an entrepreneur having co-founded Voyager Communications, a comics publisher. He also served in senior manager positions including Executive Vice President of Novatek Medical Inc., Publisher of Enlightened Entertainment Partners and President of Broadway Comics. From 1958 to 1987, he held various senior management positions at Time Incorporated, including Assistant Business Manager of LIFE Magazine, European Books Manager, General Manager of the International Division, Treasurer and Vice President. Carrie Brown Wins 1998 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award Barnes & Noble has announced that Carrie Brown has been named the winner of the 1998 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for her debut novel, Rose's Garden, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. The 1998 Discover Great New Writers Award will be presented on March 9th in a special ceremony at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7:30p.m. This literary award honors the first novel by an American author featured in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program during the 1998 calendar year. The Discover Award carries a cash prize of $10,000 with the winner receiving a trip to New York City for a host of award-related festivities. In 1998, the Discover Great New Writers program featured the work of seventy-nine new writers, with thirty-eight of those qualifying for the Discover Award. This year the judges elected to name a shortlist for the award. Chosen from among the thirty-eight eligible books, the shortlist consisted of three authors who the judges felt deserved special recognition. In addition to Carrie Brown, the shortlist included Joe Connelly, author of Bringing Out the Dead (Knopf), and Tom McNeal, author of Goodnight Nebraska (Random House). 1998 marks the sixth anniversary of the Award and Ms. Brown, joins the ranks of an exceptional group of past winners, including David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars, Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant's House, and J. Robert Lennon, author of The Light of Falling Stars. Carrie Brown grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and the small town of Williamsville, Vermont (near Brattleboro). When she was a child, her father was transferred for business, first to England, where the family lived in a village outside Winchester, and then to Hong Kong. After graduating from Brown University (where she earned a BA with Honors in English), she moved to Maryland, where she worked for thirteen years for Patuxent Publishing Company (now owned by the Times Mirror Company) which publishes local newspapers. Starting as a general assistant reporter, she worked as a writer and editor at a number of the papers in the chain, and eventually became Associate Editor of the company's flagship paper, The Columbia Flier. The Money Maven Plans Family Investing Website The Money Maven, a monthly print newsletter, has been developing a website dedicated to provide women with the tools and support they need to build wealth and become financially independent. The goal of The Money Maven is to give women a place to go for practical information, headline news and market reports. A new site for family investing is now in the works, with sections introducing children and young adults to the stock market, and areas on Educational IRA's and college financial aid. Global Y2K Initiative Launches The Global Development Center (GDC), a non-profit organization, has announced the launch of a new Global Y2K Initiative. The Initiative approaches the potential Y2K crisis from two perspectives. While emphasizing the seriousness of the situation, GDC stresses that it can serve as the foundation for serious global cooperation with long-term benefits. In addition, the website offers an opportunity to visitors to express their opinions and offer their insights with specific respect to their own countries, as well as from a global viewpoint. "We're not a 'doomsday site' and, being a non-profit, we have nothing to gain financially by being sensationalistic," said Bob Adams, GDC's Executive Director, "but matters are getting out of hand. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of how thoroughly integrated computers have become in emerging markets and developing nations, especially in reference to their basic systems: electricity, water, transportation, and communication, among others. It's one thing to have a systemic failure in one country. But to have it simultaneously in 50 or 100 countries would be disastrous." Adams stressed that this should be a major concern for Americans, Europeans, and others from more affluent countries who normally do not follow affairs in developing nations that closely. "The globalization process is real. We see what isolated setbacks in Russia or Brazil can do to financial markets. We have seen recently in Colombia, following the earthquake, how quickly civil order can collapse when basic services fail. This is nothing compared to what would happen if the Y2K problem is not addressed openly and firmly, right now." 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. |
