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SAS Publishing Partners With iUniverse to Offer Ebooks

SAS Publishing's ebook site is now hosted by and cobranded with iUniverse, a new SAS Publishing partner. July 12, 2002

Integrity Music to Launch iWorship Brand

Integrity Media, Inc. July 12, 2002

Crain Communications Acquires Workforce Magazine

Crain Communications has acquired Workforce magazine from ACC Communications Inc. July 11, 2002

Virgin Megastore Sites to Be Powered by Amazon

Virgin Entertainment Group, North America, and Amazon. July 11, 2002

Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced

Journalists from across the nation gathered at the Hilton New York Hotel for the 2002 Gerald Loeb Awards Banquet, celebrating the best of business, financial and economic journalism. July 11, 2002

CaribSeek Launches Online Caribbean Magazine

CaribSeek, a Caribbean portal, has announced the launch of an online Caribbean magazine, CaribSeek Kaleidoscope. July 11, 2002

Business for Social Responsibility Expands Online Content

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has announced new features and content on its website, a resource about corporate social responsibility. July 11, 2002

6th Annual Webby Award Winners Announced

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences recently honored the best websites with its 6th Annual Webby Awards. July 5, 2002

Scribner Enlists Fan Sites To Promote Latest Robert Jordan Ebook

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will publish Glimmers: The Prologue to Crossroads of Twilight, Book Ten in the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan as an ebook. July 5, 2002

Japan's Leading Anime Magazine Newtype Makes English Debut

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Hearst and Lifetime Entertainment to Launch Lifetime Magazine

Lifetime Entertainment Services -- jointly owned by The Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company -- and Hearst Magazines announced that they will introduce a new women's magazine under the Lifetime television brand. July 5, 2002

Thomson Media Launches New Security-Related Publication

Thomson Media, the publishers of Card Technology, have announced the launch of IDNewswire, a new security-related publication. July 5, 2002

FDAnews Announces Publication Dedicated to Genomics Industry

FDAnews announced its newest publication, Genomics Newswire, an independent publication providing reporting and analysis on the genomics industry. July 5, 2002

F&W Publications Acquires Krause Publications

F&W Publications, Inc. July 5, 2002

CNET Announces 10 Percent Workforce Reduction

CNET Networks, Inc. July 5, 2002

Shulman Media Purchases Assets of Poker Digest

Casino Journal Publishing Group (CJPG) announced that they reached an agreement with Shulman Media, LLC, owners of Card Player magazine for Shulman to acquire certain assets of Poker Digest magazine from CJPG. July 5, 2002

Writers Guild Offers Low-budget Agreement for Indie Films

The Writers Guild of America, East and west (WGAE, WGAw) announced a new program targeted to encourage independent filmmakers to produce films under the jurisdiction of the guilds. June 28, 2002

Typos and Misleading Ads Lower Website Crediblity

Companies that fail to check their spelling on their corporate websites risk damaging their online credibility just as badly as if they faced financial or legal troubles. June 28, 2002

Upside Relaunches Daily News and Insider Newsletter

Upside Magazine, a monthly business and finance magazine focused on the business of technology, has relaunched its daily news site, Upside. June 28, 2002

STATS and Sporting News Partner For Sports Annuals

The Sporting News and STATS, Inc. June 28, 2002

Scribner Signs Six Book Deal With Toni Morrison and Son

Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and her son, Slade Morrison, will publish with Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, a series of illustrated books inspired by select Aesop's fables. June 28, 2002

Real Cities Partners With Popular Mechanics

Knight Ridder Digital (KRD), the operator of the Real Cities network of local media websites, and the Hearst Corporation, publisher of Popular Mechanics Magazine, announced a partnership that will feature the home improvement content of Popular Mechanics Magazine on Real Cities sites. June 28, 2002

PricewaterhouseCoopers Forecasts Entertainment and Media Growth

Despite the combined "triple whammy" of spillover from dot-com failures, a global economic/advertising market downturn, and the impacts of the 9/11 tragedy, global entertainment and media (E&M) industry spending grew in 2001 -- rising by 1. June 28, 2002

Patrick Holford and Phillips Health Launch New Publication

Patrick Holford, an authority on new approaches to health and well-being, has joined with Phillips Health, LLC, to launch a new publication, Patrick Holford's Wellness Advisor -- Optimum Health & Natural Healing. June 28, 2002

Miramax and Sandra Lee Announce Joint Venture

Miramax Films announced a multimedia joint venture with Sandra Lee that will include books, television and merchandising projects. June 28, 2002