NetLibrary's peanutpress.com to Deliver
The Wall Street Journal ® and Fast Company
Content to Handheld Computer Users
BOULDER, Colo. – May 1, 2000 - In an Internet Age version of the
daily paper landing on doorsteps across the country, peanutpress.com,
the handheld division of eBook provider NetLibraryTM, today announced
that it will deliver top stories and popular columns each weekday
from The Wall Street Journal and complete monthly editorial content
from Fast Company to mobile professionals whose handheld computers
run the PalmTM operating system.
The combined product, known as the NetLibrary Business Compendium,
is available by subscription through peanutpress.com for $8.49 per
month or $24.95 per quarter ($21.95 per quarter during a pre-Memorial
Day offer).
Included in peanutpress.com downloads of The Wall Street Journal
content include Page One, Editorials, Arts & Leisure, and Tech Center.
Sections from Fast Company, a magazine about work and life in the
new economy, include New Ways of Working, The Digital Domain, Careers,
and New Logic of Competition.
Each weekday morning, a file containing peanutpress.com download of
The Wall Street Journal will be sent to subscribers' e-mail
inboxes. Subscribers then transfer the file to their Palm OS devices
through Palm's HotSync® cradle. The same process will take place each
month for Fast Company downloads. peanutpress.com editions of
newspaper and magazine articles are fully searchable and allow
bookmarking, highlighting, and annotations.
"The advantage of the NetLibrary Business Compendium is that
you don't have to be online to receive the major news stories
of the day," said NetLibrary Vice President of Market Development,
Micheal Segroves. "peanutpress.com lets you carry several eBooks,
all of your addresses and date book entries, and now newspaper and
magazine content in your shirt pocket. This is perfect for plane
travel or an hour's commute on a train."
Dow Jones & Company publishes The
Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions,
Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow
Jones Newswires, dowjones.com, Dow Jones Indexes, and the
Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner
with Reuters group of Factiva, with Excite@Home of Work.com,
and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe.
Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in
the U.S..
Founded in 1998 by Jeff Strobel and Mark Reichelt, NetLibrary's
peanutpress.com division is a
leading provider of secure eBooks which can be can be purchased and
downloaded via the Internet to a variety of handheld computing devices.
In addition to offering content from The Wall Street Journal and Fast
Company, peanutpress.com offers hundreds of quality fiction and
non-fiction eBooks from their Web site. peanutpress.com participated
in the groundbreaking eBook-only release of Stephen King's
"Riding the Bullet."
NetLibrary is a leading provider of eBooks and
Internet-based content/collection management services. NetLibrary
has established relationships with more than 200 publishers of trade,
academic, reference, and scholarly books, and has created digital versions
of more than 17,000 titles. NetLibrary hosts and manages eBook
collections for numerous public, academic, corporate, and special
libraries around the world. The company also sells eBooks directly
to consumers at the NetLibrary and peanutpress.com Web sites. With
NetLibrary, consumers can choose between PC-based eBooks for reading
online or offline, and eBooks for portable reading on a variety of
handheld computers, such as those running the Palm and Windows CE
operating systems.
Contact:
NetLibrary
Brian Bell
NetLibrary Inc.
(303) 381-8703
mailto:bbell@NetLibrary.com
Jennifer Genest
Cogent Public Relations
(781) 937-3489
jennifer@cogentpr.com
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