Price Waterhouse Unveils New Web Entertainment News Source

Price Waterhouse's Entertainment, Media and Communications (EMC) Group announced the launch of its website, which will provide comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information on the entertainment, media and telecommunications industries. April 6, 1998

Boston.com Relaunches with New Site Design

Boston. April 6, 1998

Third Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Announced

Elmore Leonard, Isabel Allende, Sidney Sheldon, and Terry McMillan are just a few of the top authors who will be on hand to meet and greet book lovers of all ages and backgrounds at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which is being presented in association with UCLA the weekend of April 25-26 at UCLA's Dickson Plaza. April 6, 1998

Hearst Magazines and IDG Form to Publish Cosmopolitan in China

Hearst Magazines and Boston-based publisher IDG announced a first-of-a-kind joint venture to publish Cosmopolitan in China through a partnership with Trends Lady magazine. April 3, 1998

American Lawyer Media to Acquire Legal Communications

American Lawyer Media, Inc. April 3, 1998

CMP Media Sells HomePC Magazine To Imagine Media

CMP Media Inc. April 3, 1998

Terry D. England Wins First Annual Barnes & Noble Science Fiction Maiden Voyage Award

Barnes & Noble announced that Terry D. April 2, 1998

Jay McKenzie to Head Michael Holigan's Your New House Magazine and Website

Jay McKenzie joins the Holigan Group, Ltd. April 2, 1998

Bookstore Challenges Kenneth Starr Subpoena

The owners of Kramerbooks & afterwords, a Washington bookstore, announced today that they have filed court papers challenging a subpoena issued by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr that seeks information about the book purchases of Monica Lewinsky. April 2, 1998

NOVA/PBS Online Adventures Travels to Easter Island

On April 17, NOVA/PBS Online Adventures travels to Easter Island with a Web site dedicated to exploring one of civilization's greatest enigmas. April 1, 1998

ClickZ Corporation Acquires Who's Marketing Online

The ClickZ Network, publisher of the popular daily online marketing resource ClickZ, and Microscope, has announced the acquisition of Who's Marketing Online, a Web-based magazine which provides hands-on tips, reviews, and resource listings for professionals new to online marketing. April 1, 1998

iVillage and SportsLine USA Launch Women's Sports Section on CBS SportsLine

iVillage, creator of the online women's website iVillage. April 1, 1998

Arthur Germain Joins VARBusiness Magazine As Executive Editor

Arthur H. April 1, 1998

Pioneer Internet Consulting Launches The Entrepreneur Channel

Pioneer Internet Consulting, parent of The Entrepreneur Channel (TEC), has announced the launch of a new website for entrepreneurs. April 1, 1998

New Website for Comic Superhero Ribman

Ribman wears tights, sports a cape that could have been stolen from a picnic table, and has a prosthetic hand shaped like a fork. March 31, 1998

Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic Arrives On April 2

Simon & Schuster Interactive and The Digital Village announced that April 2 will be the street date in the United States for the PC adventure game title -- Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic. March 31, 1998

Hoover's Online Announces 20,000th Subscription

Hoover's, Inc. March 31, 1998

NewMedia Magazine Announces Appointment of New Editor

Richard Landry, president and CEO of HyperMedia Communications, Inc. March 31, 1998

Reader's Digest Magazine Redesigns Editions Worldwide

Reader's Digest magazine announced a major redesign for its 48 editions worldwide, taking the familiar table of contents off the cover and replacing it with bold photography and enhanced graphics. March 31, 1998

Weider Publications Partners with AOL

Weider Publications signed a one year agreement with AOL for fitnessonline to be an anchor tenant in the Sports channel and an exclusive anchor tenant in the Healthy Living channel, both under the Fitness subcategory. March 30, 1998

New Web Soap Opera Starts March 29

Overboard, a new comic-book style weekly Web soap opera about young people dealing with substance abuse, hits the Web on March 29. March 30, 1998

Sony Announces Formation of Sony Online Entertainment

Sony Corporation of America and Sony Pictures Entertainment announced the formation of Sony Online Entertainment Inc. March 30, 1998

Medical Tribune and U.S. Pharmacist Join AirMedia Healthcare Channel

Jobson Publishing, a leading publisher of magazines and special information services for the healthcare industry will add the content of two of its Web-based publications, Medical Tribune and U. March 30, 1998

Cobb Launches First Macromedia Tools Journal

The Cobb Group, a division of Ziff-Davis Inc. March 27, 1998

The Boston Globe's On Call Magazine Debuts

The Boston Globe announced that the first issue of its new magazine, On Call, a publication directed to the nursing and allied health care professions, has exceeded expectations in page count and advertising. March 27, 1998