Dow Jones Enters Agreement with NewsStand, Inc. to Offer Digital Replicas of the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review.Business Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2004 NewsStand, Inc. is now offering digital delivery of exact replicas of Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company titles, The Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review (The Review). NewsStand, Inc. started marketing the titles in late February 2004, following a successful partnership with another Dow Jones business title, Barron's. For free introductory samples or to order digital editions of The Asian Wall Street Journal and The Review, please visit www.newsstand.com. Subscriptions cost US $28 for four weeks of The Asian Wall Street Journal, and US $16 for four weeks of The Review -- a savings of 30 percent off the cover price. Both publications are widely distributed throughout Asia, in nations including Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Australia and India, as well as in the United States and Europe. Digital copies sold will be counted as part of the total circulation under HK ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. rules. "We recognize that there is a huge opportunity to broaden our readership base and expand our circulation numbers through digital subscriptions," said Cynthia Zhao, circulation director for The Asian Wall Street Journal and The Review. "With senior executives spending so much time traveling for business these days, a digital subscription allows them to take delivery of their publication and read indispensable news -- wherever they are." Kit Webster, chief executive officer of NewsStand, said: "By launching the electronic versions of The Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review at the same time, Dow Jones is offering highly mobile readers in Asia a very cost-effective, portable and convenient business advantage: the ability to read critical business news and analysis about a region that is important to them. The digital edition can now be accessed anywhere on a desktop, laptop or tablet computer." The Asian Wall Street Journal, a sister publication of The Wall Street Journal, is the leader in global business news for Asia. For more than 27 years, The Asian Wall Street Journal has provided indispensable news and analysis of regional and global business developments for an influential pan-Asian audience of corporate and government decision makers. It has been voted Asia's "most important business reading" in every Asian Businessman Readership Survey (ABRS ABRS Australian Biological Resources Study ABRS Association of British Riding Schools (UK) ABRS acute bacterial rhinosinusitis ABRS Automated Book Request System ABRS Asian Business Readership Survey ABRS air bag restraint system ) study since the survey's inception in 1985. It has also been awarded the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA SOPA Schedule of Proposed Actions SOPA Socialist Party of Azania (South Africa) SOPA Student Oral Proficiency Assessment SOPA Society of Professional Archeologists SOPA Synchronous-Orbit Particle Analyzer ) Award for "Excellence in Newspapers" in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The Review, also published by Dow Jones, has led the way as Asia's premier business magazine since 1946. The business weekly provides information and insight essential to doing business in Asia. It has an editorial team of nearly 100 news staff based in 15 bureaus across Asia -- the largest news team of any regional weekly. The Review was awarded the SOPA Award for "Excellence in Magazines" in 2002 and "Excellence in Specialised Reporting" in 2003. About Dow Jones & Company Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DJ) (dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. of CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S. For more information, please contact: Nadia Stoyle, Corporate Communications, Asia, Tel: +852-2831 6482 or email: nadia.stoyle@dowjones.com About NewsStand, Inc. NewsStand, Inc. is the leading digital partner for premier publishers of newspapers, magazines and other print media and is included in the eContent magazine list of Top 100 Companies for 2003. NewsStand's digital delivery solution makes it possible for subscribers to download via the Internet an entire publication in traditional print format that can be read offline or online on their computer. NewsStand not only offers an entirely new reading experience for the global community, but also creates innovative marketing opportunities for both publishers and advertisers. Currently, the company delivers and markets over 100 titles to paying customers in more than 120 countries. NewsStand is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Australia, Germany, Japan, 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. and the United Kingdom. Investors include Adams Capital Management, SSM SSM abbr. surface-to-surface missile Ventures, Noro-Moseley Partners, and the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Company. For more information on NewsStand, please visit www.newsstand.com. |
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