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Press Release from ModemNews Magazine
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December 1, 1993
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A Major Change in Direction for ModemNews
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(Stamford, CT) ModemNews Magazine and the ModemNews Express BBS is
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changing the direction in which they have been going for the past four and a
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half years.
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During the summer of 1993 ModemNews reorganized itself to emerge in
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September as a central library for electronic publications that are currently
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being published that may not be getting the circulation or notice that they
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deserve and merit.
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For the past four and a half years we have been culling articles and
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stories, opinion and knowledge, from a few other electronic publications, but
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mostly from authors who have been gracious enough to write specifically for
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us, and have created an electronic magazine that has found a specific niche
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market within the BBS community. With the use of ANSI color, various offline
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text readers, door programs and Asymetrix Toolbook(tm) we have been bringing
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to you a monthly magazine that has covered almost every topic imaginable.
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From vegetarian recipes to travel, from computer tips and tricks to folk
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music reviews, from political opinion to scientific fact and fiction, we have
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provided the first electronic full featured magazine digest available, and
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have done so with remarkable success.
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Since we began publishing in early 1989 we have seen numerous other
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electronic publications come and go. Some have been clones of ModemNews and
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others have been exciting new publications that have found their own specific
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audience within the community. We've done a pretty good job during this time
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to help them along. Using our wide distribution system and international
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circulation we feel that we have made it easier for other electronic
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publications to reach their prospective audiences. Now we would like to do
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more, and have planned some specific changes in the way you will be seeing
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ModemNews in the future.
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Seeing that there are numerous electronic publications currently
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being distributed to the BBS community we believe that we can help those
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along that are of high quality and of wide interest, publications that may
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not be getting the distribution they need to be as successful as they could
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be otherwise. Some have certainly been successful on their own, but there are
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literally scores of magazines and newsletters being published on a monthly
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basis that rarely reach beyond a small geographic or demographic range. It is
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to these that we will become dedicated.
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If you have called our BBS (ModemNews Express!) you will know that we
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have a collection of general utility files, Windows files, typefaces, midi
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files etc., and a large collection of back issues of ModemNews. During this
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summer of 1993 we will slowly be deleting these files and replacing them with
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electronic magazines and newsletters as we find them or as their publishers,
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or you, send them to us. For publications that have been around for a while
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you may find specific file areas. For others, they may be placed together in
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subject specific areas, i.e., poetry, electronics, fiction.
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We will be reorganizing our message bases to better follow this new
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direction, dropping some networked message areas and picking up on others. We
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would hope to use our net wide conferences on RelayNet and Pen & Brush to
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better serve these ends, and as far as we can tell we will not be duplicating
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services found otherwise on these nets. We will use the ModemNews Conference
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on these nets as a place for publishers of electronic publications to gather
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to talk, exchange ideas and discuss problems and advances they may feel free
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to bring up. A round table for publishers and readers alike. A central place
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on the wide reaching networks we currently carry for interested readers to
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find out more about a publication, to locate copies of a specific publication
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and where they may submit articles for consideration.
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Recognizing that many publishers may not have a netwide place to go,
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we offer them our services and our bandwith. We would hope our network
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coordinators would not only encourage our change in direction, but support it
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full heartedly. We would hope that other networks will seek out the ModemNews
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conference as a service for their own.
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On a quarterly basis we will publish an issue of ModemNews that will
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highlight these publications. Where previously you would find areas of the
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magazine set aside for Travel or Humor or News and Views, you will instead
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find each of these areas focusing on a particular publication with specific
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information as to where they may be found, along with sample articles culled
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from each one. We will try to cover as much territory as we can within each
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quarterly issue, to give up-and-coming, and established publications the
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widespread distribution and access we feel this new form of media needs and
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deserves.
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What does this mean to you?
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If you are the publisher of an electronic publication, you will want
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to contact us about how we can make space available to you on our BBS, and
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what you need do to give us permission to reprint portions of your
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publication in an issue of ModemNews. These will be well spelled out on our
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BBS as a bulletin or available via e-mail on one of our networks, the
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InterNet or Compuserve.
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(We reserve the right to maintain space and coverage for free
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publications only. Publications that charge a fee for distribution may
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contact us regarding advertising rate information.)
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If you are the creator of a program or utility that can be used to
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create an electronic publication we will provide file areas for you on our
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BBS and encourage you to frequent the ModemNews conference to assist readers
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and publishers alike.
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We hope that our readers and supporters will look well upon this
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change in direction for ModemNews. Once again we will be breaking new ground
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in the BBS community, and will again be on the forefront of this exciting
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technology. Helping to bring others along and bring widespread attention to
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areas that may need, and deserve it.
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We hope you will join us.
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Please direct your comments and requests for further information to;
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ModemNews Magazine
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c/o Jeff Green
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116 Dean Street Suite B
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Stamford, CT 06902-6251
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203.969.1183 Voice
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ModemNews Express - 203.359.2299
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RelayNet - ->465
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Pen & Brush - ->465
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WME - Net Chat or Travel
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InterNet - jgreen@modemnews.win.net
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Compuserve - 71726,2721
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Delphi - JMGREEN
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