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Wednesday, July 7, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs space.com Opens Bureaus in Cape Canaveral & Washington, D.C. space.com Chairman & CEO Lou Dobbs has announced the opening of news bureaus in Cape Canaveral and Washington, D.C. Irene Brown, former aerospace correspondent for UPI is space.com's Cape Canaveral bureau chief and Frank Sietzen, Jr., former editor-in-chief of Ad Astra magazine, is heading up the website's Washington, D.C. bureau. space.com is a website devoted to news, information, education and entertainment focused entirely on space and space-related content. For the past seven years, Brown reported on space and astronomy news for UPI. She has written for Air & Space, Astronomy Now and Space World and has worked as an expedition journalist for Discovery Channel Online. She is the author of New Millennium NASA: International Space Station and 21st Century Space Exploration. Brown holds a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. Sietzen has covered commercial space activities and human space flight programs as a writer, analyst, correspondent and editor for Space Business News, Military Space, Popular Mechanics, Space World, and UPI. He is the author of five books, including World Guide to Commercial Launch and Apollo 11: America on the Moon. "Irene and Frank bring a depth of experience, creative talent and drive that will help create the definitive space destination site," said Dobbs. "With this addition, we're well on our way to a great July 20th launch for space.com." Charles Barthold has been leading editorial efforts for space.com as VP/Executive Producer since the company's start. For the past six years, Barthold served as editor-in-chief of Times Mirror Magazine's Yachting, where he was in charge of the editorial, creative and strategic direction of the magazine. Victor Dorff, a former producer with ABC's Good Morning America, has joined space.com as producer. While at ABC News, Dorff conceived and produced the first regularly scheduled simulcast of a network news program on the Internet. He also served as executive producer for CNBC Online. Michele Rosen and Greg Clark have both joined the space.com news team as writers. Previously, Rosen wrote and edited daily news stories for Forbes.com and was also the associate online editor for Ziff-Davis' Windows Sources Magazine. Rosen has an M.A. in journalism from New York University and a B.A. from Indiana University. Clark comes to space.com from the Arizona Daily Star where he reported on science and technology issues as a NASA Space Grant Fellow. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Clark received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University BookWorld Services, Inc. Announces Launch of Its E-Books Service BookWorld Services, Inc., Sarasota, one of the four largest American distributors for publishers, has announced the launching of its e-books service with an estimated 500 titles. Many of BookWorld's 165 client-publishers are already enrolled in the service. "That number may be second only to Barnes and Noble, the booksellers, who report they offer 1800 titles at the moment in their e-book service," commented Michael Rhoda, vice president-fulfillment of BookWorld, who is managing the new effort. "We don't think paper books will vanish," Mr. Rhoda said, "but we think this may be the right answer for many slower-selling older titles which ought to be available, but aren't because of the high costs of keeping them in print." E-book shoppers will be able to browse BookWorld's on-line catalog for titles available in the electronic format and can order there, or by toll-free telephone. Once payment is made, they can then download the text. Publisher-clients of BookWorld receive the payment, less a commission for the distributor, in the following month. Mr. Rhoda reports that publisher interest has been very high. All BookWorld's clients received a contract addendum form on June 22, and by the end of the month more than half had responded positively. "And most of the others are asking questions, making preparations, getting ready," Mr. Rhoda added. NuvoMedia, Inc. Announces Additional RocketEdition Publishers NuvoMedia has announced that 39 additional publishers have begun producing RocketEditions. The site now contains titles from over 50 publishing partners. "Since the Rocket eBook began shipping, we have been committed to providing our customers with a large selection of reading material," commented Martin Eberhard, co-founder and CEO of NuvoMedia. "We are thrilled that we are able to deliver on that promise with an ever growing list of high quality publishers." Initial publishing partners for the Rocket eBook included: Addison Wesley Longman, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, HarperCollins Publishers, Harvard Business School Press, Henry Holt and Company, Inc., Macmillan Computer Publishing USA, McGraw-Hill Publishing, O'Reilly & Associates, Penguin Putnam Inc., Random House, Inc., Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Tor Books, and The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. Among the new publishers supplying RocketEditions, are: 1st Books, Alexandria Digital Literature, Awe-struck E-Books, Boson Books, Broadman & Holman, Consortium, Denlingers Publishers, Ltd., DiskUs Publishing, Dorchester Publishing Company, Electric Umbrella, E-Reads, Hampton Roads Publishing, Harcourt, Inc., Hard Shell Word Factory, Hollis Books, InterVarsity Press, J. Wiley & Sons, Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives, Logos Library Systems, MesaView Publishing, MIT University Press, Mountainview Publishing, Muse Creations, New Concepts Publishing, Orpheus Romance, Poisoned Pen Press, Prentice Hall Press, Public Affairs, Publishers Group West, salon.com, Seven Bridges Chatham, Silver Lake Publishing, Sugar Mountain Productions, Times Two Publishing Company, Treeless Press, Vivisphere, Walker Books, Warner Books & Little Brown, WinePress The Rocket eBook and future Rocket eBook-enabled readers allow users to bcarry a small library of published works, personal documents and Web pages with them. The 22-oz. hand-held electronic reader can hold at least 4,000 pages (about 10 novels) of text and graphics at a time. Being digital, books read on the Rocket eBook can also be browsed, searched, annotated, underlined, linked and referenced in ways impossible with a paper book. Detour Magazine to Supply Unique Content to the Excite Network In an effort to extend its reach and to establish its online presence, Detour Magazine, an entertainment, fashion and lifestyle publication has entered an agreement with Excite@Home to become a unique content provider of celebrity photos. As part of its agreement Detour will share in all ad revenue that is generated by selling advertisements on these pages. Detour's Chairman Ed Stein says, "Detour is in the process of becoming a complete media company. The future of this company is to find ways to use our assets across print and the Internet. By leveraging our traditional media entity to the Internet we are finding ways to generate more revenue for the company without large capital expenditures. In this case, celebrity photos have been one of the most popular sections of the magazine and we hope that its appeal will be equal on the Internet." Detour Magazine is an internationally distributed monthly magazine featuring articles related to fashion, entertainment, music, literary, the arts, and current social issues. The company, which has been profiling fashion and lifestyle trends for twelve years, will launch Detour Online this summer. O'Keefe Named Editor-in-Chief at Telecommunications Magazine Telecommunications magazine has announced the appointments of Sue O'Keefe as editor-in-chief of the Americas edition and Sam Masud as senior technology editor. Telecommunications has recently refocused its coverage more on the service provider marketplace -- the companies responsible for building the next generation networks. The analysis of this market and the shift of editorial coverage have been overseen by O'Keefe. She has previously worked at the business desk of the Boston Herald and has been an adjunct professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Sam Masud came to Telecommunications from technology publishing in the government computer and networking industry. Women's Golf Today Launches Website Women's Golf Today, LLC has announced the launch of their new website, Women's Golf Today. "With more than 50 million golfers worldwide, there are very few sites which focus exclusively on golfing women," says website owner Lori Hayre. "As a golfer and a mother, it was frustrating not having a single source on the web that served my needs." WGT is a web marketplace with easy navigation, secure and exclusive shopping and added value content. The site accepts commercial advertising that provide products and services associated with women's golf. Upcoming services will include tips, leaderboard scores and a variety of alternative content. "One of our goals is to have a 5-star rating system for resorts, golf equipment and other important aspects of golf," says Hayre. "Our staff will have done the homework in advance so you may make an informed decision based on our research. Our Mission is to provide useful information for women golfers to simplify and enhance their lives." TW3 Launches All-Fiction Issue TW3, an online magazine, celebrates the last summer of the century with its first all-fiction issue. The issues includes short stories, excerpts from novels in progress and a complete novella -- by writers ranging from literary gadfly Jules Siegel to a previously unpublished 19-year-old from Texas. Siegel's contribution, 30 years in the making and previously seen only by a handful of the author's friends and colleagues, is "Forbidden Dreams: Fragments Of A Novel In Progress," of which the novelist John LeCarré said simply, "I will never part with my copy." Siegel's most recent book is the nonfiction Lineland; his short fiction, articles and reviews have been published in The New York Times, New American Review, The Village Voice, Playboy and many other venues. TW3 (has been published online since March 1996. It is the flagship site of Pictograph.com, a community of websites for readers, travelers and web publishers. Its staple features, in addition to original fiction, are reviews of books from bestsellers to choice backlist titles and highly opinionated essays on books, writers, readers and publishing trends. Law.com, LawStuff USA.com Sites Will Merge LawStuff, Inc., the Chicago-based operator of the lawstuffusa.com website, and law.com, a leading Internet portal focused on legal information and services, have announced a merger. The privately held companies will combine to form a legal resource for professionals, business people, consumers and law students. "Lawstuffusa.com's e-commerce capabilities and presence represent the perfect complement to our news and information-based portal services," said Charlie Davis, co-founder of law.com. "Whether you're looking for a lawyer in Dallas, a legal textbook for a Boston law school course or the latest information on Y2K litigation, our site will speed and simplify your search." "No other legal Web organization offers the breadth or potential of our new company," said Jeff Pavone, president of LawStuff, Inc. "Together, we cover virtually every facet of the legal market. We intend to aggressively pursue our joint business strategy for growth and acquisitions to dominate this space." Pavone will head e-commerce efforts at the combined entity. Around the Web BBC Warns of U.S. Influence on UK Culture MediaCentral To Read or Not to Read? For College Freshmen, the Choices Abound Detroit News Intertec Buys Two Operations Titles, Conference MediaCentral Life In L.A. 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