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All Books for Children Announces Holiday Goal (1997-11-12): In the spirit of the holidays, nine companies have come together to enable the gift of one million new books to Boys & Girls Clubs of America members.
ZDNet and MSNBC Form Content Exchange Alliance (1997-11-12): ZDNet and MSNBC on the Internet jointly announced a content exchange alliance, effective immediately.
Golden Books Announces Bestselling Debut of Stephen Covey Book (1997-11-11): Golden Books Family Entertainment announced today that The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen R.
L. Gordon Crovitz Named Vice President of Dow Jones & Company (1997-11-11): Dow Jones & Company announced today that L.
Ziff-Davis and Warner Publisher Services Announce Magazine Distribution Agreement (1997-11-11): Ziff-Davis, a Softbank Company, and Warner Publisher Services (WPS), a TimeWarner Company, announced an agreement whereby the entire 13-title line of Ziff-Davis paid-circulation magazines in the U.
Victoria Geibel Named Executive Editor of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion (1997-11-11): Victoria Geibel has been named executive editor of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, a publication of Universal-Engelbreit Communications.
Lonely Planet Travels the Globe with Yahoo! (1997-11-11): Lonely Planet, the guidebook publisher of books and information for adventurous, independent travelers, is now providing travel content for Yahoo! Yahoo! Travel combines Lonely Planet's travel information with additional resources and Yahoo!'s navigational expertise to produce a comprehensive, easy-to-use Web guide to the world's most popular and most remote destinations.
Amazon.com and @Home Network Sign Multi-Year Agreement (1997-11-11): Amazon.
Six New Dummies Daily Email Newsletters Launch (1997-11-10): PC World Online and IDG Books Worldwide rolled out six new Dummies Daily titles covering topics from America Online to shopping online.
Interactive Entertainment Services To Reach $11.6 Billion In 2001 (1997-11-10): Driven by growing consumer spending, as well as increasing PC penetration rates and Web access, the market for interactive entertainment will reach $11.
Partnership Formed to Publish Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion Magazine (1997-11-10): Cox Newspapers, Andrews McMeel Publishing and Mary Engelbreit Publications have announced their partnership to publish Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion.
Christmas Website Has a Humorous Twist (1997-11-07): From mixed up gifts to turkeys still frozen solid on the big day, the topic of this new Web site is humorous holiday happenings.
Oxford University Press and Imark Announce Electronic Publishing Agreement (1997-11-07): Imark Technologies Inc.
Stephen King Partners With Simon & Schuster (1997-11-07): Jack Romanos, president of the Simon & Schuster Consumer Group, announced today that Scribner, Pocket Books and Simon & Schuster Audio will enter into a publishing venture with Stephen King to publish three books: Bag of Bones, a novel; an untitled collection of short stories; and an untitled non-fiction work on the craft of writing.
Simon & Schuster Relaunches Joy of Cooking (1997-11-06): The all new, all purpose Joy of Cooking has been unveiled in bookstores nation-wide.
Nickelodeon and Humongous Entertainment To Create CD-ROMs for Blue's Clues (1997-11-06): Nickelodeon and Humongous Entertainment have joined forces in an exclusive five-year worldwide deal to develop CD-ROMs based on Blue's Clues.
WSJ Interactive Reaches Paid Circulation of 150,000 Readers (1997-11-06): The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition announced that it has surpassed the 150,000 subscriber milestone, just over a year after beginning to charge for access to its site on the World Wide Web.
RMS Titanic Announces Publication of Titanic Book (1997-11-05): RMS Titanic, Inc.
Tom Clancy Politika Website Unveiled (1997-11-05): Headland Digital Media and Berkley Publishing Group, both Pearson plc companies, announced the launch of the Politika Web site to support the Berkley paperback release of Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Politika.
Software Publishers Join Forces To Promote Girl's Software Titles (1997-11-04): The software publishers leading this year's explosive growth in girl-targeted software today launched a collaborative effort to mutually promote their own products while building the girls' software category.
