COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Aug. 5, 1998

Aug. 5, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 31

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AMAZON.COM INC.
Seattle-based Amazon.com, a major on-line e-commerce site, has announced the acquisition of two companies, Junglee Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and PlanetAll of Cambridge, Mass.

Junglee is the creator of the "data dredge" and virtual database, which CareerPath.com, the WASHINGTON POST and other major newspapers use to assemble and distribute help-wanted ads on the World-Wide Web. PlanetAll operates a free, on-line calendar and reminder service at http://www.planetall.com/.

Amazon.com is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.amazon.com/. Junglee is at http://www.junglee.com/.

ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHING SYSTEM USERS
APSU, the descendant of the Atex Newspaper Users Group, has announced that the deadline for discount hotel rates for its annual meeting Sept. 13-16 at the Palm Springs (Calif.) Hilton is this Friday, Aug. 7. If reservations are made before that day, the room rate is $75.

The meeting, which costs $400 to attend, will cover topics such as the Year 2000 bug, archiving, paginating sports agate, on-line classifieds and Microsoft Word macros.

For more information, visit APSU on the World-Wide Web at http://www.apsu.com/.

INFONAUTICS INC.
Infonautics, a provider of custom archive services based in Wayne, Pa., has announced that the DALLAS MORNING NEWS has selected Infonautics to build and manage the paper's on-line archive. The site, http://archive.dallasnews.com/, contains 830,000 entries dating to 1984.

The turnkey system features hosting capabilities, customer support, billing and maintenance. Users may search the archive for free and read an abstract before deciding whether to buy a copy of an article.

Infonautics is on the Web at http://www.infonautics.com/.

KOZ INC.
KOZ, a provider of Internet publishing software based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., has announced two recent sales.

The state of Maine is using the KOZ Community Publishing System to create Maine Communities Online at http://www.mainecommunities.com/, a free service about the state's citizens and their organizations.

The ORLANDO (Fla.) SENTINEL will use KOZ software to enhance community interactivity on its four web sites -- http://orlando.digitalcity.com/, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/, http://www.blackvoices.com/ and http://www.go2orlando.com/.

KOZ is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.koz.com/.

NEASI-WEBER INTERNATIONAL
Neasi-Weber, a supplier of newspaper management tools based in Northridge, Calif., has announced two sales. In Florida, the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES (366k, morning) has licensed AdMARC, Neasi-Weber's advertising management solution.

Overseas, News International Newspapers Ltd. of London has signed a contract for Neasi-Weber's Discus circulation system. Specifications for the two installations were not provided.

Neasi-Weber is on the Web at http://www.nwintl.com/.

NEWSINC.
Here's a fearsome thought: No one's minding the store. That's the disquieting conclusion NEWSINC. Editor & Publisher David M. Cole reaches in discussing a study of classified revenues in the Aug. 3 issue of NEWSINC. The problem: of 80 newspapers contacted, none could provide reliable data for classified revenue for the last five years.

Writer J.T. "Tom" Johnson explores the classified realm in a report on an American Press Institute seminar held in July. Johnson's story examines the future of classifieds, both in print and on-line, pointing out that some disturbing trends are beginning to emerge.

Also in the Aug. 3, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore rounds up more second-quarter financial results and talks with three industry observers about what the reports show. (In a NEWSINC. EXTRA, Wetmore also reviews the six-month earnings picture and completes coverage of second-quarter results.)

And Wetmore goes north of the border to cover the pending sale of the FINANCIAL POST to Southam Inc. and how the business daily will fit into Southam's plans for a new national daily newspaper.

For more about the Aug. 3 issue of NewsInc., visit The Cole Group on-line at http://www.colegroup.com/newsinc/.

NORDBY INTERNATIONAL
Nordby, a provider of financial data based in Boulder, Colo., has announced that its on-line subsidiary, Nordby.com, will license its financial content for use by the web site of THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW in Spokane, Wash., http://www.spokane.net/. The site, Pilot Online, will use Nordby.com's Private Wire to post area-specific stock news, quotes and analyses.

Nordby is on the Web at http://www.nordby.com/.

QUARK INC.
Denver-based Quark has announced it has completed the process of making its Quark Publishing System software run in full on Windows clients. The release of QuarkDispatch XTensions for QPS 2.0 will allow a newsroom to use QPS on PCs and/or Macintoshes.

New to QPS in version 2.0 are features that combine all elements of a story block into a single assignment, expanded querying capability with optional display of 12 lines of text, and server-level log-on.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

SAXOTECH A/S
SAXoTECH, a publishing systems supplier based in Aalborg, Denmark, with U.S. offices in Augusta, Ga., has announced that it will install a 100-seat SAXoPRESS editorial system at GULF NEWS (82k, morning), a daily published by Al Nisr Publishing LLC in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The SAXoTECH newsroom system will go live Nov. 1, serving the GULF NEWS as well as two weekly magazines, FRIDAY and U. Al Nisr's site on the World-Wide Web will be managed with the SAXoTECH NetNews module.

SAXoTECH announced it will work with Vision GmbH of Germany to integrate the SAXoTECH editorial system with Vision's advertising system, which will be installed at the GULF NEWS next year.

SAXoTECH is on the Web at http://www.saxotech.com/.

SEYBOLD SEMINARS
Seybold, a division of the Ziff-Davis publishing company based in Foster City, Calif., has announced that Seybold San Francisco/Publishing 98 will have dual conferences Aug. 30-Sept. 4 at Moscone Convention Center.

Web and Internet publishing products and strategies will be discussed Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 in a series of five tracks and three tutorials, covering design, marketing, corporate issues and development tools. On Sept. 3-4, print publishing issues will be explored in five tracks, ranging from design, production and workflow to infrastructure and color reproduction.

In addition, Seybold San Francisco will feature special interest days, one-day courses on such things as digital imaging and the Portable Document Format (PDF).

Seybold is on the Web at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

SOFTAD GROUP INC.
SoftAd, a supplier of sales force automation products based in Mill Valley, Calif., has announced that the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL will use SoftAd's Media SalesExcelerator. The number of licenses the JOURNAL SENTINEL will buy was not provided.

SoftAd is on the Web at http://www.softadinc.com/. The JOURNAL SENTINEL is at http://www.jsonline.com/.

THOMSON INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Thomson, a supplier of web-based advertising solutions based in Stamford, Conn., has announced that it has been selected by Media General of Richmond, Va., to publish on-line the classified ads printed in Media General's 21 daily newspapers now and the company's non-daily publications in the future. Media General will use Thomson Interactive Media to create its own set of branded, regional classified sites on the Web.

Thomson Interactive is on the Web at http://www.thomsoninteractive.com/.

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