The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from July 2000

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from July 2000

First Look - Kodak Puts Pictures in Your Palm.(PalmPix)(Product Information)
July 1, 2000... One small step for digital cameras is a giant leap for personal digital assistants-and convenient, mobile photography Palm has sold more than 6 million handheld computers, but the IIIc is its first with a color screen-albeit only 8-bit...

Spotlight - Microsoft Cranks Up Its Wide-Ranging E-Book Program.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2000... Just prior to Book Expo America 2000, Microsoft held an all-day briefing that outlined the full scope of its e-book program. For the first time, publishers were introduced to the Windows-based Reader, its suite of server products and a...

Trip Report - Typo[media] 2000: In the Shadow of Gutenberg.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2000... Bringing a more human touch to the Web was an important theme as designers put down the HTML brackets and gathered in Germany for a Linotype Library session. In Mainz, Germany, last month an unusual event was held for this day and age, a...

Trip Report - Nexpo 2000: Newspapers Tackle Mixing Content and E- Commerce.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2000... A topic on many minds at this year's Nexpo gathering in San Francisco was how newspapers can make their Web sites viable. Not viable from a content or technology perspective, as that progress is continuing, but viable from a business...

Trip Report - Topic Maps Chart Future Course for XML in Content.(XML Europe 2000)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2000... Topic maps, content management and creation, and some of the innovative newcomers were the talk of attendees at XML Europe 2000 in Paris. The first time Paris hosted a major XML conference in 1998, there was an April heat wave, the World...

HP unveils new media publishing services division - 'Internal start-up' will give publishers repurposing options.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2000... Last month, Hewlett-Packard debuted at Nexpo 2000 what it is calling an "internal startup company," aimed at giving publishers an automated resource for re-purposing content for multi-channel, multimedia distribution. Called the New Media...

MediaDNA markets digital content with new service - Exploits combination of indexing and DRM technologies.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2000... Plenty of publishers-ourselves included-have archives of PDF files that reside in registration-controlled areas of their Web sites. Yet, just because we might want to require authenticated permission to access the material doesn't mean we...

CrossRef goes live - Cross-journal linking through DOI rolled out by 33 publishers.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
July 1, 2000... Leading scientific, medical and technical (STM) publishers went live last month with CrossRef, a publisher-led initiative to automate cross- reference hyperlinking through metadata and digital identifiers. Begun by publishers last fall, the...

iUniverse provides outsourced services to IDG Books - Trade publisher to use iUniverse to manage its library database and online bookstore.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Having established itself as a complete online service for aspiring authors, iUniverse.com (www.iuniverse.com), is now extending into publisher services as well. It recently brokered a deal with IDG Books (www.idgbooks.com) to maintain and...

Kinecta uses content management vendors as distribution channel - Lines up Mediasurface, Worldweb.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Content syndication and aggregation company Kinecta (www.kinecta.com) has reached an agreement with Mediasurface Limited (www.mediasurface.com), a European e-business content management systems vendor, to be its first international embedded...

Quark announces new content management venture - But little revealed at NetMidas launch.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2000... The latest vendor to throw its hat into the content-mangement ring is Quark, which announced last month the launch of a new company, NetMidas LLC, which will develop and distribute Web site-management software aimed at high-end clients....

Engage acquires MediaBridge Technologies - Will integrate profile database with marketing promotion tools.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2000... Citing a desire to gain a stronger presence in the newspaper market, Engage, a provider of online customer profiling and tracking software, has signed an agreement to purchase MediaBridge Technologies (formerly Cascade). The deal, which is...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2000... In our June story on e-books, two references to Simon & Schuster's "Star Trek" series mistakenly read "Star Wars." Our apologies to S&S and to any Trekkies whom we inadvertently offended.

Bookface catches Time-Warner's eye with launch - Site has browser-based reader.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2000... A new player in the e-book space, Bookface Inc. (www.bookface.com) made headlines at Book Expo last month with the beta launch of its free, ad- based book-reading site and the announcement that Time Warner Trade Publishing...

Everybook: still trying to get into the game - After badly missing its launch date, Everybook reformulates its strategy on e-books.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2000... In January of 1999, we first profiled Everybook (www.everybook.com) and its dedicated e-book device, the EB Reader (Vol. 3, No. 5). At the time, the company planned to release three separate models of the dual- screen display, color-enabled...

NetLibrary and Xerox to offer print-on-demand services.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... NetLibrary (www.netlibrary.com), through an arrangement with Xerox , will add print-on-demand to the list of services it offers publishers and retailers. The two companies plan to co-develop a distributed on- demand book printing and binding...

Ibooksinc.com launches first children's e-book portal.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Ibooksinc.com, not to be confused with iBooks.com, has launched the Internet's first children's e-book site, www.ipicturebooks.com. As the URL suggests, the site-which is scheduled to go live this month with about 100 titles-will offer...

MightyWords gets $36 million in funding.(BarnesandNoble.com has purchased a $20 million stake in Mightywords.com)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... BarnesandNoble.com has purchased a $20 million stake in Mightywords.com, an e-publishing and distribution portal for new and established authors. The portal has also received major cash infusions from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ($6...

PricewaterhouseCoopers, InterTrust team with Adobe.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Adobe and PricewaterhouseCoopers have agreed to combine their technologies into what could become a complete end-to-end e-publishing solution. Under the agreement, users of PricewaterhouseCoopers' DigiHub online service-which, following...

Live Customer Interaction and the Internet Join in "Internaction".(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
July 1, 2000... One of the surest ways to turn me into a repeat buyer is to provide excellent customer service before, during and after the sale. If I am treated well by a sales representative, receptionist or business associate, my desire to continue a...

Introducing Key3Media Group.(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... Over the past few months many of you may have heard about the breakup of the various Ziff Davis properties by our parent, Softbank. As part of that development, ZD Events, the division that includes Seybold Seminars and Seybold Publications,...