Inergy Online Partners With IDG Books

Posted on May 28, 1997

Inergy Online, Inc., a leading developer of easy to use email and Web site services accessed from any Internet device, today announced a working partnership with IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. IDG Books Worldwide will apply the fun and friendly style they pioneered with the ...For Dummies series to online user guides, help systems, and user interfaces for selected Inergy products and services. The popular ... For Dummies approach highlights Inergy's easy to use Web services. As a part of the agreement, Inergy products and services will be featured in IDG Books Worldwide titles and CD-ROMs in the ...For Dummies series.

The agreement pairs two uniquely consumer-centered companies in a mission to make the power of the Internet accessible to anyone -- with or without a PC.

"Inergy is committed to offering Internet products and services that are as easy to use as the television to the broadest base of consumers ," said Charles Belanger, President of Inergy Online. "We are very pleased to work with IDG Books Worldwide, the publisher whose reputation is built on simplifying the delivery of technology's benefits to busy people."

IDG Books Worldwide will participate in the initial roll-out of Inergy's first-in-category products designed for non-PC Internet devices (like Web TV). The advent of non-PC devices, and of broadband networks (which will deliver high speed Internet access to millions of households) is transforming the Web. Inergy products and services are enabling the entire range of non-PC Internet access devices to deliver creative content back to the Web.

"Making technology easy to use is the hallmark of our ...For Dummies series," said Ken Ball, IDG's Director of Emerging Markets. "We believe this alliance with Inergy Online will help consumers take advantage of anytime, anywhere access to the Internet with or without a PC." Inergy Online

Inergy Online, Inc. is the leading developer of server-sided Web-based) Internet solutions -- products and services which require no software installation or local storage and are fully accessible from any Internet device. Inergy's proprietary server-sided technology leverages the new Internet architecture to deliver services that are easier to use, more affordable, and require lower maintenance than those achievable with client-side computing technology. In addition to being software-, platform-, and provider-independent, all Inergy products and services offer privacy, security, deep functionality, mobility, and a permanent address or domain name.