The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from June 2000

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from June 2000

Spotlight - Rising Stakes in E-Books Prompt Call for DRM Standards.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Time Warner's plunge into e-books and the release of several well-known trade titles for Microsoft's Book Reader made headlines. But behind the scenes there's a new sense of urgency surrounding the hard, but vital, work of grappling over...

First Look - Cadmus Rapid Review Takes Peer-Review Cycle Online.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 2000... Cadmus' latest service for journal publishers provides a route to shortening the editorial cycle. For more than a century, journals have served as a primary outlet for publishing new research, with publishers managing the peer-review...

First Look - Macromedia's UltraDev: Database Connectivity for the Masses.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 2000... Macromedia is poised to release Dreamweaver UltraDev, and with its dynamic capabilities and Live Data feature, the superset application of Dreamweaver promises a growing number of professional developers and designers innovative ease of use...

The Latest Word - Ektron looks to empower smaller companies with content needs.(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... Introduces eMPower to low end Corporate IT departments can't possibly keep up with the state of the art forever, and, for this reason, widespread adoption of vendor-built systems based on the latest technology is not far off on the...

Lightning Print enters e-book manufacturing business.
June 1, 2000... On-demand pioneer to begin pilots with major retailers in late June In what is sure to be a shot in the arm to the e-book market, Lightning Print, the Ingram subsidiary that makes printed books on demand, formally announced plans to enter...

Reed's Commercial Division sold to Thomas Publishing.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Thomas takes on staff of 350 The Commercial Division of Reed Technology and Information Services (RTIS), a long-time service provider and integrator in publishing markets, was sold last month by Reed Elsevier to privately held Thomas...

Intel backs Excalibur's move into streaming-content delivery and services.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Software supplier sees outsourcing opportunity Excalibur Technologies Corp. and Intel have signed an ageement to form a new company that will allow owners of high-value audio and video content-especially news and sports broadcasters, film...

Inktomi, DoubleClick form partnership.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Ad and search giants look to integrate offerings Inktomi and DoubleClick have formed a partnership to offer current and potential Inktomi customers access to DoubleClick's new "search" category under its Business Network, which was...

DeskNet finds a newspaper VAR.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Automated Publishing Solution looks to grow to a new market Publishing integrator and software supplier DeskNet recently announced the first value-added reseller of its Automated Publishing Solution (APS). Q will be reselling APS into the...

Mediasurface 3 hits European markets; will U.S. be next?(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... Company seeks alliances abroad, focuses on home UK-based Mediasurface last month released version 3 of its Mediasurface content management system, the first upgrade the company has announced since establishing a U.S. office last winter....

Vignette acquires OnDisplay for $1.7 billion.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Adds to StoryServer offering Vignette (www.vignette.com) has spent big to beef up its product offering. On Monday, the e-business application provider announced that it would acquire OnDisplay, Inc., (www.ondisplay .com) a developer of...

Esquire publishes e-book issue.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Esquire magazine (www.esquire.com) has released an e-book edition of its annual "July Summer Reading" issue for Palm hand-helds, Pocket PCs, Rocket eBooks, SoftBook and Windows CE devices. The e-book enabled issue, which includes four feature...

Rodale teams with Internet Book Co. Health and fitness publisher.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Rodale (www.rodale.com) has asked Internet Book Co. (www.internetbookco.com), to move Rodale's books to a digital format. Through its agreement with Internet Book, Rodale-which also publishes the magazines Runner's World, Mountain Bike and...

Random House distributes digital audio books.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Random House (www.random house.com) and Audible (www.audible .com) have agreed to begin distributing digital audio books online. The two companies will jointly create Random House Audible, which will offer downloadable audio-enabled versions...

BN.com appoints e-book head.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com) has hired Michael Fragnito, formerly publisher of Viking Studio Books and senior vice president of production at Penguin-Putnam, as vice president of e-books at bn.com, which is a new position. Fragnito will report...

NetLibrary on the move completes deals.(has linked into several library automation systems)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... NetLibrary (www.netlibrary.com) recently announced that it has linked into several library automation systems, including epixtech Inc. (www.epixtech.com), Follett Software Co. (www.follett.com) and Innovative Interfaces Inc. (www.iii.com)....

Glassbook releases 1.1 with stronger encryption.(Reader Plus 1.1)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... In May, Glassbook (www.glassbook.com) released version 1.1 of its $40 Reader Plus edition, which includes a digital version of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the ability to post...

Books24x7 names new CEO.(Dave Parkinson is promoted to CEO at Books24x7.com)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Dave Parkinson was promoted to CEO at Books24x7.com, following the departure of Chris Pouley. Acccording to Parkinson, things are going well for the Web-based subscription reference service: the company has reached 25,000 paid subscriptions...

Versaware, ZDNet to offer electronic IT materials.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Versaware (www.versa ware.com) and ZDNet (www.zdnet.com) announced recently that they have signed an agreement, which allows ZDNet to launch a co-branded online subscription-base library of IT materials that will be available using...

DigitalOwl to run classroom pilots.(DigitalOwl.com)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... DigitalOwl.com (www.digitalowl.com), the fledgling digital content commerce vendor we profiled in April, is teaming up with Winter Park High School in Florida and another as-yet-unnamed Florida high school to provide electronic textbooks to...

Palm OS reader developer expands library.(Qvadis Corp.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Under an agreement reached between the two companies last month, Qvadis Corp. (www.qvadis.com), maker of Express Reader e-book software for Palm OS devices, has integrated Memoware's (www.memoware.com) entire PDA-based e-book library with its...

Picture e-books.(Ibooksinc.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Ibooksinc., a publisher of both print and electronic children's books, announced that it will launch ipicturebooks.com, a new site for making children's picture books available on the Web. The company, which distributes through Simon and...

As we went to press.
June 1, 2000... Roundarch consulting launched. Deloitte Consulting (www.deloitte.com), WPP Group plc. (www.wpp.com), and BroadVision (www.broadvision.com) are spending $10 million to launch Roundarch, an "e-consulting" firm that will help organizations...

The Web by the Numbers.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Is content still king, or has commerce bumped it down to queen? There was a time when publishers hoped and believed that the content model that would work on the Internet would be to give away enough free content to entice new visitors,...