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Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes · Clickability Inc. and The Wall Street Journal has announced the deployment of Clickability's Web-based Save This and Email This tools for online publishers onto the WSJ.com website. The agreement enables WSJ.com subscribers to save links to stories and email them to others. · Rodale Inc., a healthy lifestyles publisher, announced an exclusive five-year, multi-media partnership with bestselling author and alternative medicine authority Dr. Andrew Weil. Steve Murphy, Rodale's president and chief operating officer, made the announcement. Rodale will create a team of personnel consisting of an editor and a marketing executive dedicated to supporting and developingprojects with Weil. This team will be under the leadership of Barbara Newton, senior vice president of Rodale's Women's Health Group. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Dr. Weil, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, has authored numerous scientific articles and eight books, including three consecutive New York Times' #1 bestsellers. · Imagine Media announced that Jonathan Simpson-Bint, a ten-year veteran of Imagine and its parent company, The Future Network, has been named President of U.S. operations. Most recently, he served as president of Imagine Media's Entertainment Division. Simpson-Binte will direct on the international launch of Official Xbox Magazine. · Daniel H. Lowenstein, L.L.B., of UCLA and Richard L. Hasen, J.D., Ph.D., of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, have been named editors in chief of the new peer-reviewed journal, Election Law Journal, to be published in print and online in August 2001 by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Daniel Lowenstein, former chair of California's Fair Political Practices Commission, drafted major legislation regulating campaigns and campaign financing in California, and in 1995 authored the first book on modern American election case law published since 1877. Richard Hasen has been a full-time faculty member at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, since 1998. · MountainWings.com announced the launching of a free publisher's resource for inspirational stories. MountainWings is a daily inspirational email newsletter sent to thousands of subscribers each day. MountainWings stories are also available for free content licensing. · Digital Goods, a provider of digital content marketing, announced an agreement with American Management Association (AMA), a management development organization, to extend the digital marketplace for the management, business and career ebooks from its AMACOM Books division. Under the agreement, Digital Goods will use its Amplifi interactive marketing and ecommerce tools and services to widen the online market for AMACOM ebooks. Initially, Digital Goods will offer more than 100 AMACOM digital titles, with more expected to follow. · DigitalOwl, a digital rights management company , has also announced a deal with AMACOM, to make whole titles and excerpts of popular business, career and professional ebooks available for purchase and digital delivery to handheld devices via the Internet. · Martha Wells, former advertising manager or publisher at three Lee Enterprises newspapers, has been appointed publisher of the Albany Democrat-Herald and group manager for Lee's Mid-Valley publications. Wells succeeds Harold Orsborn, who has left the company. She will have group responsibility for the Corvallis Gazette-Times and the jointly published Mid-Valley Sunday, working with the publisher of the Gazette-Times, Brenda Speth. She also will oversee the weekly Lebanon Express. Lee Enterprises is based in Davenport, Iowa. It owns 23 daily newspapers and joint interest in five others. · JP Kids, Inc., an independent kids' media company, announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with ThinkQuest. JP Kids will create and sell sponsorship packages, and work with ThinkQuest to repackage and distribute ThinkQuest's library of student-created content across a variety of media platforms, such as television, publishing and Internet content syndication. · Blab.com President Vince Commisso announced that the company has partnered with Snowball.com to be its exclusive greeting card provider. Today, the company goes live with co-branded content placed on Snowball's Gen i network, which includes IGN.com, ChickClick.com and HighSchoolAlumni.com. Blab will provide a library of more than 6,000 Flash-based animated greeting cards. · Activision, Inc. has signed a deal with BBC Multimedia to license certain interactive publishing rights for BBC ONE's The Weakest Link. Under the terms of the deal, Activision has acquired the worldwide rights to develop, publish and distribute interactive games based on The Weakest Link for the PC and console platforms. The game will be rolled out internationally to coincide with the show's sale to other countries by BBC Worldwide. · Belo announced that Belo Interactive, Inc., Belo's Internet subsidiary, and Strategy.com Incorporated, a provider of one-to-one messaging through Web, wireless and voice, have launched My News. My News is a free personalized service that delivers Belo's local news and information content to consumers through a variety of electronic devices including email, the Internet, mobile phones, pagers and facsimile. The service features local content produced by Belo plus national and global content from various national news services. Two Belo Interactive Web sites, DallasNews.com and KVUE.com, are currently offering My News. NWCN.com and TXCN.com are scheduled to launch My News in late April, and KING5.com and inlandempireonline.com will follow in June. The remaining Belo Interactive sites are scheduled to launch the service by October 1, 2001. · The New York Times has increased its daily and Sunday circulation for the fifth consecutive reporting period, according to figures filed by the newspaper with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, subject to audit, for the six-month period ending March 31, 2001. Daily circulation rose by 10,378 copies or 0.9 %, reaching a net paid circulation of 1,159,954. Sunday circulation rose by 6,994 copies or 0.4 % for a net paid circulation of 1,698,281. · AirMedia, an Internet-based wireless communications company, named Fred Rubin Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rubin has more than 17 years of financial management experience, including 12 in the technology industry. Rubin, who will report to Bregman, joins AirMedia from Winstar Communications, a broadband telecommunications services provider, where he served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer. · Salon.com, an online media company, has announced that its content is now available on the Lexis-Nexis information services under a licensing agreement negotiated by Lexis-Nexis. The San Francisco-based site features interviews with literary, film and political figures, an overview of culture in today's world and news commentary. ebrary, an online research service, announced that Yale University Press, a 90-year-old publisher with more than 3,000 titles in print, will make its collections available on ebrary.com. The initiative will give ebrary.com patrons access to thousands of works of poetry, history, literature, economics and language previously unavailable on the Web, while offering Yale University Press a new way to generate revenue. · MightyWords, a seller and distributor of digital content, and Fatbrain, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble.com, announced a partnership to make downloadable and printable professional titles available from new stores at fatbrain.com. MightyWords also announced the formation of an advisory board of high-tech professionals to assist in the creation and acquisition of additional MightyWords digital content for Fatbrain customers. Fatbrain originally owned and launched MightyWords as eMatter before it was purchased by Barnes & Noble. · ICexpert.com, which bills itself as an incentive compensation community, announced that it was adopting the name ICWorld.com to reflect the full extent of information and resources now available to its growing community of executives, managers, and professionals. ICworld.com is sponsored by Synygy Inc., a provider of Enterprise Incentive Management software and services. By registering for ICWorld.com site access, users can participate in newsgroups, ``ask the expert'', shop for pertinent books, and utilize the library of online articles, events, and related websites. · Neopost Online Inc. has been named the exclusive electronic postage provider for eBay and Half.com. Under the agreement, eBay, an online auction marketplace, and eBay subsidiary, Half.com, will offer their members Neopost Online's PC-based postage solution, Simply Postage. · House of Blues has announced the launch of HOBPM.com, a new stand-alone site dedicated exclusively to the dance and electronica community. The site has partnering with URB magazine for content and promotion as well as SonicNet for radio channels and music editorial. 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. |
