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Tuesday, November 28, 2000 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Primedia Inc. has announced Jenny Parker, 30, has been named director, public relations, for New York Magazine. As director, Ms. Parker will oversee all aspects of communications and media relations involving New York Magazine and the companion website. Slate, announced that it tallied a record number of unique users in October. Media Metrix reported that 2,852,000 unique users clicked to Slate over the month of October. This represents a 114 percent gain in unique users for Slate since January of 2000. Slate's own internal servers show an even better November. In the first two weeks of November Slate recorded over 10 million site visits. The high point was Nov. 9, when 1.7 million readers checked the site for election coverage. A list of competiting political Web resources can be found on HowToWeb.com. TheThreshold.com, an online entertainment network for branded entertainment, has announced its acquisition of the online game rights to the "Hellraiser" franchise originally created by author Clive Barker. The Thomson Corporation announced that it has purchased Greenhaven Press, Inc. and Lucent Books, Inc, privately-held book publishers of social issues and other nonfiction series for middle and high school students. Cigital (formerly Reliable Software Technologies), a Software Risk Management (SRM) solution provider that helps companies protect themselves from the business risks of software failure, has announced the launch of SRM Magazine. SRM Magazine will feature information and articles on issues facing companies that build and integrate software into their products, deploy e-commerce solutions to transact business, or buy and integrate off-the-shelf software. OverDrive, Inc., a provider of ebook technology services, has announced the appointment of Pamela Turner as Director of Content for its ebook aggregation, digital rights management and distribution businesses. Richard Robinson, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Scholastic Corporation has announced the appointment of Jack Davies, Founder of AOL International, and current Senior Advisor to AOL President, Bob Pittman, as a newly elected member of the Board of Directors of Scholastic Corporation, the children's publishing and media company. Lionel Wigram was named Senior Vice President, Production, Warner Bros. Pictures, it was announced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, President, Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures. Amazon.com has launched a Wireless Phones store for wireless phones and services. Vulcan Ventures Inc., the investment organization of Paul G. Allen, has announced it has agreed to acquire the assets of Chicago-based One-On-One Sports Inc., a leading sports radio network. The assets of One-On-One Sports will be folded into The Sporting News, a Wired World Company, and rebranded The Sporting News Radio Network. Trilogy Retail Enterprises L.P. has announced that it will make an offer to the shareholders of Chapters Inc. to purchase 4,888,000 common shares of Chapters at a cash price of Cdn. $13.00 per share, which if successful would result in Trilogy holding approximately 50.1% of the shares of Chapters, a leading Canadian bookseller. internet.com Corporation, an Internet industry portal, has announced the launch of two new internally developed websites to serve various segments of the Internet industry. The two new sites, MCommerceTimes.com (Mobile Commerce Times) and BSDCentral.com, will be incorporated into internet.com's network, now totaling 149 Websites. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., has announced the appointment of Joel Feigenbaum as president of Books Are Fun, Ltd., a display marketer of books and gifts. Scholastic Books has entered into a 3 year non-exclusive license agreement with Manley Toy Quest to market and distribute a book based on Manley Toy Quest's #1 selling toy, TEKNO the Robotic Puppy. eHow.com, a how-to site, has announced a partnership with Tribune Media Services' college syndication arm, TMS Campus. Through the partnership, eHow will provide its how-to content to hundreds of college newspapers across the country. 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. |
