NewsStand Inc. Announces New International Board of Advisors.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas -- NewsStand Inc. has formed a Board of Advisors that includes seven prominent business and academic leaders from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and Switzerland who have extensive experience in all aspects of traditional publishing and new media. The first conference, held 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. , with NewsStand's Board of Advisors covered many angles of the new electronic edition industry. Included in discussions were reasons behind the recent growth of electronic edition readers in both newspapers and magazines and the unique interactive platforms that are now available to tie electronic editions closer to Web content. "The NewsStand Board of Advisors has contributed valuable strategic insights that will help us maintain leadership in this new industry," commented Kit Webster Webster, town (1990 pop. 16,196), Worcester co., S Mass., near the Conn. line; settled c.1713, set off from Dudley and Oxford and inc. 1832. The chief manufactures are footwear, fabrics, and textiles. , president and chief executive officer of NewsStand. "We are especially interested in their perspectives on how publishers view electronic editions as a part of their overall readership read·er·ship n. 1. The readers of a publication considered as a group. 2. Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university. growth and how different pricing models might influence the integration phase of getting audited electronic circulation into traditional publishing budget plans."
The members of the NewsStand Board of Advisors are:
-- Don Babick - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Former president and chief operating officer for Southam
Publications; former publisher of National Post - Canada
-- John Holden - New Canaan, Conn.
Vice president, American Business Media; Former Business Week
Advertising Manager
-- Dr. Wayne Hoyer PhD - Austin, Texas
Chairman, Marketing Department. University of Texas, Austin;
former University of Mannheim, Chair for General Management,
Economics and Marketing
-- Larry Kramer - San Francisco, Calif.
Chairman and chief executive officer of MarketWatch Inc.;
former executive editor of The San Francisco Examiner
-- Patrice Schneider - Ruschlikon, Switzerland
Chief Investment officer, Media Development Loan Fund -
providing capital and tools for sustainable independent media;
former general manager of AOL Europe
-- Dr. Christine Urban - Sharon, Mass.
President of Urban & Associates, a market research and
consulting firm serving newspapers and media companies; former
faculty member of Harvard Business School
-- Edwin Warfield IV - Baltimore, Md.
Managing partner of Warfield Capital; former owner/publisher
of Baltimore-based legal publishing company; founder of
dbusiness.com
About NewsStand 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 To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the 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 has over 175 titles under contract and distributes 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, the United Kingdom and New York City. 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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