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``Home Media Retailing'' Enters Consumer Market With ``Agent DVD''.


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"Agent DVD" is a collectible publication featuring comprehensive coverage of DVDs in the sci-fi, horror and comic book comic book

Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums.
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Distribution of "Agent DVD" is made possible through a partnership with "Home Media Retailing" and Tower Records, America's leading independent music and entertainment retailer. "Agent DVD" is the first in a series of purely consumer products being developed by "Home Media Retailing."

"Agent DVD" is free to Comic-Con attendees who visit the Tower Records booth, as well as participating advertisers' booths.

"People love filmed entertainment having to do with comics and animation, and that gives us the ideal opportunity to enter the consumer market," said Don Rosenberg, publisher of "Home Media Retailing" and head of Questex Media's entertainment group. "Our 27 years of experience in publishing and our close relationship with Hollywood perfectly positions us to create a unique and meaningful product."

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 of retail stores for Tower Records. "Tower Records is thrilled to partner with 'Home Media Retailing' as the exclusive retail distributor of 'Agent DVD,' which we'll be handing out at the Tower Records booth at this year's Comic-Con International."

About "Home Media Retailing"

Founded in 1979, "Home Media Retailing" (www.homemediaretailing.com, www.hmr.tv) is the leading weekly, national trade magazine covering the home entertainment market. Questex Media Group Inc. is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media provider, headquartered in Newton, Mass.

About Tower Records

Since 1960, Tower Records has been recognized and respected throughout the world for its unique brand of retailing. Founded in Sacramento, Calif., with the singular vision to have a music store with unparalleled selection and fair prices, Tower forges ahead with the development of exciting shopping environments, espousing diverse product ranges, artist performances, and technological advances in merchandising. Tower maintains its commitment to providing the deepest selection of entertainment merchandise in stores that celebrate the unique interests and needs of the local community. For two years running, the music industry has voted Tower Records "Retailer of the Year."

Tower owns and operates 89 stores in the U.S. with 144 additional stores run by licensees in nine different countries. The company opened one of the first Internet music stores on America Online See AOL.  in June 1995 and followed a year later with the launch of Tower.com.

For more information about "Agent DVD" or "Home Media Retailing," contact Lyndsey Shinoda at 714-338-6744 or lshinoda@questex.com.
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