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Automatic Media Launches New Website

Automatic Media has launched the first new website in its network of literary and alternative culture websites, which includes the online magazines Feed and Suck. January 17, 2001

Newbery and Caldecott Winners Announced

Richard Peck, author of A Year Down Yonder, and David Small, illustrator of So You Want To Be President? are the 2001 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, both prestigious awards in children's literature. January 17, 2001

IEEE Spectrum Magazine Announces Relaunch

IEEE Spectrum Magazine has launched a repositioned and redesigned publication with its January 2001 technology forecast issue, entitled "Always On: Living in a Networked World". January 17, 2001

HarperCollins Announces Strategic Relationship With Rightscenter.com

HarperCollins Publishers and Rightscenter. January 17, 2001

Specialty Publishing Relaunches E-com Magazine

Specialty Publishing Company has announced the relaunch of e-com magazine as an Internet magazine for business visionaries. January 17, 2001

Court TV To Launch Weekly Hollywood Series

Court TV adds a new weekly half-hour series to its Friday line-up with Hollywood at Large, on February 16 at 5:00 p. January 17, 2001

New York Times and Wall Street Journal to Digitize Archives

Bell & Howell, an information solutions and services provider, has announced agreements with The New York Times Company and Dow Jones & Company to provide digital archive services. January 11, 2001

uMember.com to Acquire the Success Companies

uMember. January 11, 2001

Obadiah Press Launches Christian Magazine

It was a moment of divine intervention that inspired Springdale businesswoman LaDonna Meredith to launch Obadiah, a new Christian magazine. January 11, 2001

McGraw-Hill Education Launches EBook Initiative

McGraw-Hill Education and WizeUp Digital Textbooks announced an initiative to electronically publish, sell and distribute digital textbooks for the higher education market. January 11, 2001

Warburg Pincus Invests $21 Million in iUniverse.com

iUniverse. January 11, 2001

ConnectivCorp and AMI Announce Content Agreement

ConnectivCorp, a health content provider, has that it has entered into a content agreement with American Media, Inc. January 11, 2001

AOL and Time Warner Merger Approved

America Online, Inc. January 11, 2001

Xlibris Adds Ebooks to Product Line

Xlibris, an epublisher, has announced the addition of Glassbook formatted ebooks to its product line. January 9, 2001

Lord of the Rings Trailer to Debut Friday

New Line Cinema will unveil the first theatrical teaser trailer for The Lord of the Rings trilogy this Friday, January 12, 2001. January 9, 2001

eMarketect Magazine Debuts

eMarketect Magazine, a journal for builders, owners and operators of eMarketplaces, has announced its official launch and the debut of the website companion to the print publication, which premieres in February. January 9, 2001

Alloy Acquires Girl Press

Alloy Online, Inc. January 9, 2001

Versaware To Publish Digital Textbooks For Wiley

Versaware Inc. January 5, 2001

Latino Magazine Hits Dallas Newsstands

Valiente magazine, a monthly Latino lifestyle magazine, began 2001 by arriving at Dallas and Fort Worth newsstands. January 5, 2001

Starbucks To Provide In-Store Internet Access

Starbucks Coffee Co. January 5, 2001

Primedia and Brill Form Media Central

Primedia Chairman and CEO Tom Rogers has announced that it is combining its 172 newsletters, magazines, websites, conferences, databases and other products that focus on the media industry into a new subsidiary called Media Central. January 5, 2001

Election Law Journal Announced

Mary Ann Liebert Inc. January 5, 2001

Barnes & Noble.com Launches Epublishing Division

Barnes & Noble. January 5, 2001

Adobe Magazine Ceases Publishing

After 10 years Adobe Magazine has ceased publication, with November/December 2000 being their final issue in print. January 5, 2001

Authors Provide Visual Look at Publishing

Have you ever stopped by Random House? Or seen the Putnam Building? Where did you send your novel last week? Usually writers don't have the chance to visit New York, let alone explore where their work arrives for editorial review. January 3, 2001