Ebay Partners With Newspapers For Local Classified Listings

eBay, an online marketplace, announced the launch of eBay Seller Classifieds, a service that allows eBay sellers to advertise their items in a dedicated eBay sellers section of newspaper classifieds. May 4, 2001

Digital Goods To Wind Down Operations

Softlock. May 4, 2001

Google Provides Access to Full Usenet Archives

Google, a provider of search technology, announced that it has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja. May 4, 2001

National Magazine Award Winners Announced

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has announced the winners of this years National Magazine Awards. May 4, 2001

Disney To Expand ABC.com

Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) and ABC will expand their online entertainment and news content, offering a more robust ABC. May 4, 2001

Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners for 2001

The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes presented its prestigious Robert Kirsch Award to noted poet, City Lights publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and What Is Poetry. May 2, 2001

AOL Time Warner Launches iPublish.com

AOL Time Warner has launched iPublish. May 2, 2001

HarperCollins Acquires Rights to Elmore Leonard Books

HarperCollins Publishers announced that it will bring bestselling author Elmore Leonard back to William Morrow. May 2, 2001

Harcourt to Publish Interactive Textbooks Using CRQ Technology

Harcourt College Publishers is offering new textbooks that use :CRQ (``See Our Cue'') technology, print-to-Web technology from Dallas-based Digital:Convergence Corporation. May 2, 2001

DreamWorks Acquires Film Rights to Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy

DreamWorks has acquired the film and television rights to Terry Pratchett's bestselling fantasy novels Truckers, Diggers and Wings, known collectively as the Bromeliad trilogy, it was announced by DreamWorks principal Jeffrey Katzenberg. May 2, 2001

UMG Takes Full Ownership of GetMusic

Universal Music Group (UMG) announced that it has taken full ownership of the music media company GetMusic, acquiring the half owned by BMG Entertainment. April 27, 2001

Salon.com Launches Premium Subscription Service

Salon, an Internet media company, announced the launch of Salon Premium, a paid subscription service which is mostly ad free and provides access to some premium content including erotic art and photography. April 27, 2001

ONA Announces Second Annual Online Journalism Awards

The Online Journalism Awards (OJA) program, international Web journalism awards presented by the Online News Association (ONA) and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, is seeking entries for its 2001 contest. April 27, 2001

NetLibrary Lays Off 90 Employees

netLibrary, a provider of ebooks and content management services, announced the company will now accept electronic files meeting OeBF standards directly from publishers or, at the publisher's request, manage the conversion process on behalf of the publisher. April 27, 2001

Knight Ridder to Layoff Workers at Most Newspapers

Knight Ridder, a leading newspaper publisher, announced a restructuring of its work force in response to both a recession in advertising revenue and a sharp increase in the price of newsprint. April 27, 2001

Adobe Delivers Acrobat Ebook Reader 2.1

Adobe Systems Incorporated, a provider of publishing tools, announced the availability of the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader 2. April 27, 2001

Production Starts on A Wrinkle In Time Mini-Series

Miramax Television, in association with Dimension Films and Fireworks, announced that production has begun on A Wrinkle in Time, the upcoming four hour, two part mini-series based on Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Medal winning children's book. April 27, 2001

World Book and America Online Announce Agreement

World Book, Inc. April 25, 2001

Thomas Nelson to Explore Strategic Alternatives for C.R. Gibson

Thomas Nelson, Inc. April 25, 2001

By 2020 Newspapers May Not Be Printed in Most Cities

The Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) has released a study, which reported various finding including the possiblity that by 2020 newspapers will not be printed in most major cities. April 25, 2001

MSN MoneyCentral and CNBC.com Websites To Merge

Microsoft Corp. April 25, 2001

Houghton Mifflin Files Motion for Expedited Appeal Over Wind Done Gone

Houghton Mifflin said it filed a motion for an expedited appeal with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to overturn last Friday's ruling preventing the publication of The Wind Done Gone. April 25, 2001

Short Lists for Electronic Literature Awards Announced

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) has announced the short lists for the first Electronic Literature Awards. April 25, 2001

2001 Chicago Literary Award Winners Announced

The winners of the fourth annual Chicago Literary Awards are E. April 25, 2001

Judge Blocks Publication of Gone With The Wind Parody

U. April 20, 2001