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Monday, September 24, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Miscellaneous | Movie Business People · Primedia Inc., a media company, announced that Annemarie Iverson, 37, has been named Editor-In-Chief of Seventeen and Editorial Director of Primedia's Teen Magazine Publishing Unit. This unit includes Teen Magazine and its Youth Entertainment Group (YEG) titles, Bop Magazine, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and 16 Magazine. Ms. Iverson replaces Patrice Adcroft, who was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen. In this newly created position, Ms. Iverson will be have overall editorial responsibility across Primedia's teen titles and will partner with Linda Platzner, the recently named president and Group Publisher of the Primedia Magazines Teen Sales and Marketing. · Buzztime Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of NTN Communications Inc. and an interactive game content developer and distributor, announced that Dan Sweeney has joined Buzztime Entertainment as senior vice president of distribution. · IT industry publisher and elearning company, The Coriolis Group LLC, a subsidiary of Haights Cross Communications, announced that Al Valvano has been appointed the company's new group publisher, in succession to Steven Sayre, who has left the company. Valvano joins Coriolis with an extensive publishing background, most recently as associate publisher at New Riders, a division of Pearson. Previously, he also held various acquisitions and editorial management positions at Que Publishing. · Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) announced that Matt Konigsmark has been promoted to studio manager for BayInsider.com, CIMedia's San Francisco's city site. The announcement came from Tom Bates, vice president of product and marketing, CIMedia. As studio manager, Konigsmark will work closely with Eric Greene, sales manager, to ensure that BayInsider.com meets the needs of both advertisers and the local BayInsider.com online community. Additionally, he will serve as the site's primary liaison between BayInsider.com and Cox partners KTVU/Fox 2 and Action 36 Cable 6. · The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) announced that Barbara J. Culliton has joined the Institute as Vice President for Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of the Genome News Network. In this new position, Ms. Culliton will be responsible for the development and oversight of TIGR's publishing activities. As Editor-in-Chief of the Genome News Network (GNN), Ms. Culliton will use her considerable experience to enhance the value of GNN, which produces an online news magazine about genomics in medicine, biomedical research, and agriculture. In addition, GNN will create an on-going series of print publications about advances in genomics. The Genome News Network, which was founded by Ms. Culliton and her team at Celera Genomics, has recently been acquired by TIGR, where it can be found as of September 28th at GNN.TIGR.org. Digital Publishing · XanEdu, a division of ProQuest Information and Learning, has announced a partnership with Pearson Education to create integrated print and digital CoursePack solutions with Pearson's Custom Publishing Division. Generating specialized CoursePacks to complement designated textbook curricula, the partnership will link texts with XanEdu's digital archive of commercial and scholarly journals, periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary literature works and academic collections. · Infotrieve announced agreements to provide document delivery services for the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the MIT Press. As a result of these agreements, end users browsing an Infotrieve partner website are provided with a link to Infotrieve to purchase complete-text articles (formatted text and graphics) from these publishers on a pay-per-view basis. · Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., a provider of handheld electronic readers, and The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced the launch of ten new handheld medical titles for eBookMan, Palm OS devices and eventually Windows CE/Pocket PC devices. The list adds new internal medicine titles and extends into other medical specialties like emergency medicine, gastroenterology and surgery. · Adobe announced the public beta version of Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC. The product allows mobile professionals and others the freedom to view content in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on devices based on the Pocket PC software from Microsoft Corp. A beta version of the product is available for download free of charge from the Adobe.com website at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ppcbetareg.html. Launches and Redesigns · Favorite Haunts is a new travel guide with an eerie twist - each of its upscale destinations is haunted. The guide spirits readers away to a variety of locales including Hollywood; Chicago; the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Hebrides; Abingdon, Virginia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Hampton Court Palace in London; and Punderson Manor Resort & Conference Center, near Cleveland, Ohio. At each location, the lore of local hauntings is retold, accompanied by color photography and lists of things to do and places to go while not actively hunting for ghosts. · Globalwinenews.com, a daily wine business news service on the Internet, has completed its switch from a static website to dynamic, interactive delivery via email. The html-with-images wine business ``newspaper'' developed by Richard Cartiere Publishing LLC is now known as Global Wine News e-Monitor (GWNe). Using a proprietary process that scans over 3,000 news sources daily on the Web, each issue contains: weblinks to wine business news stories; summaries of foreign wine business news reports translated from five languages; and special features. · PBS.org has relaunched its Arthur Aardvark Kids Site. The Arthur website has added new features to the site and made the navigation even more kid friendly. New features of the Arthur website include daily activities, improved site navigation, and pictures of the main characters (with links to their pages) to help pre-readers point and click on their favorite pages. · Imagine Media announced that the U.S. version of its Official Xbox Magazine -- the officially licensed publication for Microsoft's future-generation Xbox video game console system -- will be available on newsstands nationwide on September 25th. Published monthly, Official Xbox Magazine targets the 18- to 34-year-old male segment. Miscellaneous · Snowball, an online network for young adults, announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a one-for-six reverse stock split, in which one share of common stock will be exchanged for every six shares of outstanding common stock. Snowball stockholders had approved the reverse split at a special stockholders' meeting held on September 11, 2001. The effective date of the reverse split for trading on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market is September 24, 2001. As required by Nasdaq, the common stock will trade under the symbol ``SNOWD'' for the next 20 trading days to highlight the effect of the reverse split. The company anticipates that, following the reverse split, Snowball common stock will trade at a price that is higher than $1.00, which is the Nasdaq Small Cap Market's minimum bid price required for continued listing. There can be no assurance, however, that after the consummation of the reverse split, the common stock will trade at six times the market price prior to the reverse split or above the $1.00 per share minimum bid price. · American songwriters and music publishers have reached preliminary agreement with the online file sharing service Napster to settle the class-action lawsuit currently pending in federal court in California. The agreement includes terms under which the songwriters and music publishers will license their music to Napster's new membership-based service. · Book Adventure, a free online reading motivation program, is celebrating its first annual Book Adventure Week October 1 - 7, 2001. As part of the national celebration, book donations will be made to school libraries in need. Young readers who register on the site will earn 100 points toward prizes, such as games, magazine subscriptions, and downloadable activities. Current registered students can also refer friends to earn up to 200 extra points. Movie Business · Salon Media Group, a new media company, announced that HBO Pictures has optioned the rights to Erin Aubry Kaplan's ``The Color of Love'', an autobiographical essay about a black journalist who falls in love with a white high school teacher accused of racism. The story originally appeared on Salon.com. Thomas Carter and Richard Rothstein are set to produce the HBO project based on Kaplan's life. Carter and Rothstein have worked together previously on Trapped in a Purple Haze, an ABC made-for-TV movie. Michael Maren, who initially discovered the story on Salon.com, is slated to write the screenplay. 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. |
