Byron Preiss Multimedia to launch Virtual Comics On-Line Service on The Microsoft Network.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 3, 1995--Byron Preiss Multimedia Company Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on Symbol: CDRM CDRM Cross Domain Resource Manager (IBM APPN technology) CDRM Content Delivery and Rights Management ) today announced that it had signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ Symbol: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) to become a "content provider" for The Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network , their planned on-line service. It is currently the intention that, as a content provider for The Microsoft Network, Byron Preiss Byron Preiss (born 1953, Brooklyn, New York City; died July 9, 2005, East Hampton, New York) was an American writer, editor and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of iBooks. Multimedia will have a unique forum and plans to include games, on-line fiction, and links to their reference products. It is the intention that this agreement will enable Byron Preiss Multimedia to create multi-user, on-line games, link CD-ROMs to the on-line service, stage unique on-line events related to the company's CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). titles, sell advertising, market and sell their CD-ROM titles on-line. It is the intention that The Microsoft Network, through the Byron Preiss Multimedia forum, will be the home of Virtual Comics(TM), the first original on-line publisher. It is the intention that it will debut with a down-loadable library of comics to be followed by three wholly original interactive comics series. Virtual Comics will be headed by Director and Editor-in-Chief Danny Fingeroth, most recently Group Editor of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man line, and managed by Chris Colborn, Manager of On-Line Services. It is the intention that the first three titles will be: They Call Me...the SKUL(TM), written by Danny Fingeroth and designed and penciled by Ron Lim; THE 6(TM), written by Fabian Nicieza and designed and penciled by Greg Luzniak; and THE SUIT(TM), written by Dan Chichester and Greg Wright and designed by Shawn McManus. With these first three titles, the VIRTUAL UNIVERSE will introduce the digital age in comics! Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Byron Preiss Multimedia Company Inc. develops and publishes multimedia software for the consumer, small business, and educational markets. Titles include the R. Crumb Screensaver & Companion, The Multimedia Cartoon Studio, and Will Eisner's The Spirit CD-ROMs and a new line of novels and anthologies featuring Spider-Man, the Silver Surfer, and other Marvel characters. The Microsoft Network is operated by Microsoft Corp. on behalf of Microsoft On-line Services Partnership. CONTACT: Byron Preiss Multimedia Co. Inc. Byron Preiss, 212/989-6252, ext. 101 or Hilsinger-Mendelson Inc. Sandi Mendelson, 212/387-8383 Meryl Moss, 203/226-0199 |
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