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Monday, March 29, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs America Online and Financial Times Partner America Online and the Financial Times, a daily newspaper specializing in global business, have announced a partnership to make the Financial Times a key provider of international business news on the AOL service. As part of the partnership, the Financial Times will become an anchor tenant within the International News, International Business News and International Channels of AOL's domestic service, providing daily breaking news stories, exclusive features and links to the Financial Times Web site, FT.com. This agreement will give AOL users direct access to the FT's latest global business news coverage and will provide them with an international perspective from FT correspondents stationed around the world. Financial Times will also be accessible to AOL members through Keywords: Financial Times or FT. "We're very pleased to be able to offer our internationally-minded members access to news from the Financial Times," said Jonathan Sacks, AOL's Senior Vice President of Programming Operations. "The worldwide journalistic reputation of the Financial Times is extremely impressive and having them as a partner is a powerful contribution to our international news offerings. This relationship is yet another example of AOL's commitment to bringing our members the very best brands available in cyberspace." "We are delighted to offer AOL members easy access to the Financial Times coverage," said Stuart Arnold, Managing Director of the Financial Times in The Americas. "The Financial Times offers an in-depth international perspective on world business and political developments that readers can not find anywhere else. We are sure AOL users will find the FT to be a welcome and complementing addition to AOL's International News and International Channels. Miss the FT and you miss a crucial briefing." The Financial Times is printed at 12 sites around the world and is read daily by 1.3 million of the world's most influential business people in over 140 countries. The Financial Times is part of the Financial Times Group. Other companies in the group include Financial Times Business and Financial Times Electronic Publishing (FTEP). BioWorld Website Launches American Health Consultants, publisher of BioWorld Today, has launched a website that provides 10 years worth of biotechnology business information and ready access to profiles of nearly 1,500 biotechnology companies. The site was designed as a central biotechnology hub on the Internet. BioWorld Online features current headlines and news stories; stock quotes; analysis of company and industry data; a job bank; forums for on-line discussions; and more. Users can retrieve up-to-date news stories about biotech developments in the U.S., France, Israel, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and elsewhere. BioWorld Online allows users to zero in on charts and tables full of information about deals, mergers, collaborations, and clinical trials. BioWorld Today has been providing new coverage on the biotechnology industry for almost 10 years and is published every business morning. BioWorld Today keeps biotech professionals up-to-date on the industry's business, science and regulatory news -- mergers and collaborations, FDA hearings and results, breakthroughs in research and other relevant information. Biotechnology executives, scientists, attorneys, stock analysts, suppliers, marketers, and individual investors all use this intelligence service to stay current in the biotech arena. World Book to Offer New Generation of Reference Products in Versabook Format Versaware Technologies today announced an agreement with World Book to convert and market a range of World Book products in the Versabook format. The first book to be released in the new format will be the World Book Medical Encyclopedia, with three additional titles to follow by the end of the year. In addition to converting the content and providing technological support, the joint agreement calls for Versaware to market the products to consumers through its direct distribution network, while World Book will offer the titles as part of its own educational and library channels. Together with the Medical Encyclopedia, the first group of "intelligent content" World Books will include the new World Book People and Places, a six-volume introductory geography and culture series, the World Book Children's Atlas and the World Book Children's Illustrated Dictionary. All four titles will be released as Versabook CDs and will continue to be available in print editions. "The Versabook format is ideal for cost-effectively transforming our highly graphical, cross-referenced materials into digital form," said Michael Ross, Publisher of World Book. "This partnership offers our customers acclaimed World Book content with previously unattainable utility and delivery options." Versaware's technologies convert reference titles, textbooks and other content into a media-rich electronic format called Versabook. Versabooks can be purchased as CD/DVDs or downloaded over the Internet and provide a range of advanced applications, especially the ability to search across multiple books simultaneously. Multimedia enhancements provide users with animations, pictures, sounds, music, maps and more. Disney Unveils Entertainment Site for Families Disney.com has been redeveloped as a new online destination. Designed for both kids and families, the new Disney.com integrates the features and services from Disney Blast to expand Disney's reach through the use of a single URL: www.disney.com. The new site has been esigned with 12 including Games, Activities, Stories, Movies, Music and Television, as well as Shopping and Vacations. "Our goal for the new Disney.com is to create the absolute best interactive environment for kids and families on the Internet," said Ken Goldstein, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Online. "We want our guests to come to Disney.com to play, to learn, to explore, and to share experiences with their friends." For those who want broader access to family-friendly sites on the Web, Disney 's Internet Guide, also known as DIG, continues to provide guests with eight main categories that touch on the everyday lives of today's families. Each of the sites featured on DIG is handpicked by Disney Online staff members and continuously reviewed for relevance and entertaining content. Disney Online, a unit of Buena Vista Internet Group, has headquarters in North Hollywood, with satellite offices in New York, San Francisco and Detroit. Founded in 1995 to bring the magic of Disney to the online world, Disney Online creates and publishes a variety of services that include Disney.com, part of the GO Network. GourmetMarket.com Teams With Great Chefs To Offer Broadcast Content Online GourmetMarket.com, an Internet commerce site for premium food and wine products, announced a partnership with Great Chefs Television, to license Great Chefs' content to GourmetMarket.com, including text, pictures, audio and streaming video for the Internet. Under the terms of the agreement, GourmetMarket.com assumes the Internet rights to Great Chefs' culinary content, enabling the company to use or to license it to GourmetMarket.com partners or another online third party. Airing daily on the Discovery Channel, Great Chefs features world renowned chefs cooking on location in their own restaurant kitchens. "Great Chefs has millions of viewers who are food and wine lovers," said Chanan Steinhart, CEO and president of GourmetMarket.com. "We anticipate that many Great Chefs viewers are looking for a place to purchase premium food and wine on the Internet and expect that this partnership, coupled with our current presence on leading Internet portals, will increase GourmetMarket.com traffic and commerce." Around the Web For Entertainment Firms, the Choice May Be to Adapt to the Internet or Die L.A. Times The Plain Dealer Editor Resigns Editor&Publisher Pocketbooks Turn the Page. Mass-market Paperbacks Losing Ground. 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