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Friday, April 23, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Science & Spirit Magazine to Hit Bookstores Ingram Periodicals has announced they will distribute the magazine, Science & Spirit, across the U.S. and Canada to over 500 bookstores. The magazine, launched just over a year ago, will be tested in several key markets in area Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Little Professor, and Borders bookstores. "There is an explosion in popular interest in how these two powerful cultural forces in our society, science and spirituality, can work together to solve the world's problems," said Kevin Sharpe, editor of Science and Spirit. "The integration of science and spirit is essential for our social health, for individuals and for society." Science & Spirit's editorial content covers a variety of areas where science and religion can jointly impact society, including genetics and ethics, forgiveness research, environment, spirituality and health, and cosmology. Having found a definite niche, international magazine readership has grown from a few thousand in late 1997 to now more than 40,000 in 80 countries. Science & Spirit is published five times a year by Science & Spirit Resources, Inc., a registered nonprofit corporation. A companion website offers research news updates, extensive book listings and reviews, an international calendar of events, and a free sample issue. Sample issues and subscriptions are also available by calling +1-603-226-3328 (outside the US) or 800-782-3235. Business Week: Will eBay Sell at the Newsstand Too? You've seen eBay the online-auction Web site. Now come July, you can read eBay, the magazine. Krause Publications, a Wisconsin-based publisher, plans to start publishing a monthly magazine planned to help readers navigate the ins and outs of online auctions. Although the name of the magazine is yet to be decided, the name and brand cachet of eBay will be prominent, says the publication's executive editor, Kevin Isaacson. Its tagline will be: Your roadmap to treasures on the Internet. Isaacson says his initial circulation goal is 400,000. Isaacson says Krause has a marketing partnership with eBay, but eBay hasn't invested in the launch of the magazine. Fred Langa to Pen Monthly Column for Byte.Com Fred Langa has come back to Byte. The award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of Byte Magazine has returned to write a monthly column for CMP Media's Byte.com. In his column, "The Monitor" which debuts on April 26, Langa will offer wide-ranging commentary on the leading-edge technology that will affect personal computing and on current computing-industry events. Langa, a computer/Web author, editor, analyst and consultant, was Byte Magazine's editor-in-chief for four years before joining CMP in 1991 to relaunch Windows Magazine. Rising to vice president/editorial director, he oversaw the editorial operations of Windows Magazine, NetGuide and HomePC. Langa currently serves as senior consulting editor of Windows Magazine, writing the widely read analysis column, "The Explorer," and giving his opinions weekly for the magazine's online edition and for InformationWeek Online. "It's great to be back at Byte," Langa said. "Its strength always has been multiplatform coverage and as today's OS pie gets sliced in new and different ways, the need for a platform-neutral title like Byte.com will only increase." Scient Financial Expert Pens Monthly Column for Worth Magazine Scient has announced that Ravi Desai, a Managing Director in Scient's Financial Services business unit, has been appointed the monthly Internet columnist and contributing editor to Worth magazine, the preeminent personal finance and business publication. Desai's personal column, entitled "Net Investor," will serve individual investors who wish to make use of the Internet in order to achieve better returns on their investments. This column will highlight resources on the Web that provide unique information and services that enable investors to make educated financial investments. "There's enormous demand for smart guidance in the use of the Internet as an investment tool," said John Koten, editor in chief of Worth. "Ravi Desai's background and abilities as a writer make him the perfect person to help our readers understand this new and rapidly changing medium." Gene Selven & Associates Inc. Acquires Chip Scale Review Magazine Gene Selven & Associates Inc. has acquired the assets of Chip Scale Review, a leading electronics industry publication devoted to advanced integrated circuit packaging and test, from Tessera, San Jose. GS&A, a market research and publisher's representative firm, has been responsible for Chip Scale Review's advertising sales since last November. Now in its third year of publication, Chip Scale Review was started by Tessera, a developer of specialized integrated circuit packaging technology, as a way to promote the infrastructure for chip-scale packaging. Gene Selven, president of GS&A, has assumed the post of publisher from Dr. Thomas Di Stefano, Tessera's founder. Ron Iscoff, the magazine's founding editor, continues in that post and has also been named associate publisher. "With its separation from Tessera, Chip Scale Review can now fulfill its destiny as a truly independent, advertiser-supported journal," said Selven. "Readers will soon begin to notice significant improvements to the publication that will affect everything from editorial content to circulation," he added. The Small Business Advisor Expands The Small Business Advisor has added more helpful tips, tools and strategies to its y extensive collection of useful information for the small and home based business owner. The Small Business Advisor is visited by over 150,000 visitors each month. The Small Business Advisor provides a variety of free information to assist the small and home based business owner. Information includes daily marketing tips and business news, weekly tax and success tips, State specific assistance, online articles, tax information, doing business with the U.S. Government, Y2K assistance, book reviews and related links. Developer Bob Sullivan states, "Our mission with the Small Business Advisor website is to help small and home based businesses prosper and grow. Information is the key!" ScreamingMedia Announces Partnerships with Newspaper Publishing Groups ScreamingMedia (formerly known as Interactive Connection), the New York-based Web content streaming firm has announced new partnerships with Blethen Maine Newspapers, The Daily Oklahoman, The Albuquerque Journal, The Black World Today and the ClickZ Network. ScreamingMedia, which specializes in aggregating content from multiple news wire services and individual content providers, delivers topic-specific news to websites. ScreamingMedia's new partners will employ a self-syndicating tool developed by ScreamingMedia called Siteware(R) that will allow their newsroom to syndicate and leverage local and community content in a hands-free environment. "The addition of local newspaper content to the extensive offerings already being distributed through ScreamingMedia's publishing systems can only bolster our current content offerings. These agreements marks another example of how ScreamingMedia's systems open up new revenue and branding opportunities for online newspapers while providing our news clients with a wider array of more diverse content," said Sean Morgan, ScreamingMedia Vice President of Business Development. Academic Press Begins Article-By-Article Publishing Academic Press (AP), a leading global scientific publisher, has announced that it has enhanced IDEAL, its online scientific journal library, by offering researchers accelerated access to key journal articles. Utilizing an article-by-article publishing process, AP will electronically post individual articles on IDEAL as they become available, even if the print edition of the article's journal is not ready for publication. The article-by-article system is particularly useful when applied to journals with low publication frequencies. Six Academic Press journals, with publication frequencies ranging from quarterly to monthly have been selected to launch this electronic article-by-article publishing initiative. The journals are Metabolic Engineering; Finite Fields and Their Applications; Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases; the Journal of Algorithms; the Journal of Multivariate Analysis; and the Journal of Number Theory. After an article is completed for one of the six journals, it is posted electronically on IDEAL as an entry in a partial issue of that journal. Partial issues will continue to be accumulated until the entire print issue is completed. An article can be published online several weeks before it appears in a printed issue. "The article-by-article system accommodates the author's work rather than the print issue and allows the article to be published independent of print schedules and the punctuality of other authors," said Thomas Lebhar, electronic production manager at Academic Press. 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