Amazon.com teams up with Simon & Schuster's information SuperLibrary for virtual tour on World Wide Web; Internet tour takes participants to killer Web sites.INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 1996--Amazon.com (www.amazon.com), the World Wide Web bookstore that bills itself as "Earth's Biggest Bookstore", and the Information SuperLibrary(TM) (www.superlibrary.com), the Internet home of Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. , are teaming up for a Virtual Places tour of killer Web sites. Led by David Siegel, renowned graphic designer and author of the Hayden Books Hayden Books was a publisher of computing books, and published several titles written by Larry Pina. bestseller, CREATING KILLER WEB SITES, the Internet tour will use GNN's Virtual Places technology to take Internet surfers to various Web sites that exhibit excellence in design. The first stop on the Virtual tour will be the companion Web site to Siegel's book on Web design at www.killersites.com. Last stop on the tour will be the Amazon.com Bookstore, the leading Internet-based bookstore which offers a catalog of 1.1 million titles, easy-to-search, and browse features, e-mail services See Internet e-mail service. , Web-based credit card payment, and direct shipping to customers. At the Amazon.com stop, individuals will have the opportunity to purchase Siegel's book. "Amazon.com Books is excited to join forces with Simon & Schuster and the Information SuperLibrary to promote this book. Creating Killer Web Sites is a very popular title among Amazon.com Books' customer base and is currently on our bestseller list," said Leslie Koch, Amazon.com Books' vice-president of marketing. "In support of this tour, we are discounting the book by 20%." Four tours are scheduled: Monday, September 9, tour one at 11-11:30 a.m. Central Time; tour two at 6-6:30 p.m. Central Time; Tuesday, September 10, tour one at 2-2:30 p.m. Central Time; tour two at 8-8:30 p.m. Central Time. PC users joining the tour can download the software from the Creating Killer Web Sites Virtual Places site at www.mcp.com/hayden/ckws/. (The technology is not yet available for Mac users.) Freely available for the PC through GNN GNN - Global Network Navigator and the Information SuperLibrary(TM), "Virtual Places" is client-server software that provides Web surfers with the same core community benefits that have made commercial online services so popular -- Chat Rooms, Instant Messages, Live Auditorium, Road Trips Locate Members Online -- within an open Web-centric architecture. "Virtual Places" enables Internet users to roam the Web on a virtual bus using graphic avatars (thumbnail images), which represent users on screen. In CREATING KILLER WEB SITES, and throughout the Virtual Tours Virtual Tours The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. The word panorama indicates an unbroken view, so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video , Siegel merges the art of design with technical advice on Web site logistics. A leader in Web design, Siegel focuses on good typography typography (tīpŏg`rəfē), the art of printing from movable type. The term typographer is today virtually synonymous with a master printer skilled in the techniques of type and paper stock selection, ornamentation, and composition. , clean graphics, site architecture, and suggestions on how to use Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. extensions to design "third-generation Web sites." Siegel has been a design consultant to many major companies, including Hewlett Packard, Hal Riney Hal Riney (born 1932) is an American advertising executive and founder of Publicis & Hal Riney. Riney was named number 30 on the Advertising Age 100 people of the 20th century. [1] He was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001. & Partners, and DDB DDB - device independent bitmap Needham. His own Web site was chosen runner-up by Netscape for "Cool Site of the Day" in 1995. The Information SuperLibrary(TM), currently averages more than 500,000 hits a day, making it one of the most successful Web sites in existence. The Site, which contains thousands of Simon & Schuster books for preview and purchase, is ranked as one of the top Web sites by Best of the Web (www.hot100.com). The Information SuperLibrary is operated by Macmillan Online, a division of Macmillan Publishing USA, the world's largest computer book publisher, and a unit of Simon & Schuster, the world's largest educational and English-language book publisher. Simon & Schuster is the publishing operation of Viacom Inc., a worldwide leader in publishing and entertainment. CONTACT: Macmillan Online, Indianapolis Kim La Salle La Salle, city (1990 pop. 9,717), La Salle co., N Ill., on the Illinois River; settled 1830, inc. 1852. It forms a tricity unit with Peru and Oglesby. Corn, wheat, and soybeans are grown, and cattle and hogs are raised. , 317/817-7302 klasalle@mcp.com |
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