Aztech New Media Corp. is a publisher of intellectual property on CD-ROM for the global
market. As of early 1996 the Company has published 47 license and royalty-free photographic
image titles, 6 commercial gamestitles, 5 license and royalty-free music titles, 3 general reference titles, 36 shareware titles, 14 multipacks, five 4-CD-ROM "Album" trademarked packs, 5 foreign language-specific packs and a variety of custom titles forbundling purposes, including a 12-CD multilingual set.
After producing its first few shareware titles in 1992, Aztech acquired the rights to manufacture The Case of the Cautious Condor and Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows, two of the world's first truly interactive, award-winning,comic book-styled murder mysteries. Aztech's most ambitious project was The PhotoPhileTM World Stock ImageLibrary, a 31-CD set of high-resolution photographic images from 40 countries around the world, and cross-referenced by 22 thematic categories. It was over six months in the making. The Photophile Library was the world's first, and still is the world's largest, compilation of annotated, printable quality, color-correctedphotographic images ever offered on CD-ROM. The Photophile Library is about 18 gigabytes (18 billion bytes)in size. The tape backup requirements during development were about half a terabyte (0.5 trillion bytes).
In addition to The Photophile Library, Aztech also offers Visual RhythmsTM (3 cd's), Abstract
Graphics andBackgrounds (3 cd's), Gems, Fashion-Advertising-and-Lifestyles I and II (3 cd's),
Jurassic Dinosaur, a productline Sampler (#3), Textures and Backgrounds, Floral TapestryTM,
African HeritageTM, African TraditionalPeoples, SpaceViewsTM From NASA I & II,
Watermarks and Ghosted ImagesTMI & II, BodyShotsTM (6 cd's),and Underwater RealmsTM
image libraries. Shareware titles include The Complete Office Automation System,Windows
MasterBlendTM I, MegawareTM, DOS MasterBlendTM, Super Shareware Games, Incredible
GamePack, MacSilverWareTM I, II and III, and the top-selling 7-CD Home Entertainment
CollectionTM ("TheCubeTM" Series I), The Fun CubeTM II, The Kids' CubeTM III, The Mac
CubeTM IV and Kid's Cube ForWindowsTM V. Commercial game offerings include
ImagiSOFT's Entertainment EmporiumTM, MVP's MostValuable ProgramsTM, The Perfect
GeneralTM and The Lost AdmiralTM, which are all Aztech-exclusive gamecompilations. Music
titles include The Music Works!TM I and II, and Nature CallsTM I and II. The Publishers'Pick
10-Packs Series 1 and 2, reflect a wide cross-section of titles from leading software publishers from aroundthe world. The Company's third 10-pack is a 10-CD bundle titled MacPack AttackTM featuring The 7th Guest, Journeyman Project Turbo, Harpoon II and others (several supporting multiple foreign languages).
Another industry innovation from Aztech is its 48-CD-ROM "Home@OfficeTM Series featuring
8 modules of 6titles each. The modules are Publishers' CubeTM, Artworks CubeTM, Multimedia
CubeTM Productivity CubeTM,World PhotoCubeTM, Clipart CubeTM, The Document
CubeTM, and the Business Mgmt. CubeTM. Included in thisseries are such reknowned and best
selling products as Harvard Graphics, Xeros'x TextBridge, Midisoft's SoundImpression, Peter
Norton's Windows 95 Tutorial, Maximizer contact management, Hutchinson
Multimedia Encyclopedia, Jetform's Bizforms, Jian's Marketing Plan Builder, WinCheckit!,
Pressworks, Conversion Artistand much more.
Aztech's products have been well-received in the global marketplace. In lateSpring, 1994, Aztech developed a European top-ten 12-CD collection titled, TheHome Entertainment and Professional Multimedia Collection. Inthe first six weeks of introduction, over 100,000 cd's were sold from this collection. Two other titles have soldover 70,000 and 100,000 copies respectively in less than six months of each title's release. Series 1 of The Cubewas rated in the top 15 for over 5 months in 1995 on the Bestseller List of New Media Magazine, achieving #12 in August 1995.
Aztech currently has distributors in 25 countries including Canada, the United States, the U.K., Germany,France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Australia, New Zealand,Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa, Japan and more.
Aztech produces everything in-house that is required for its CD-ROM titles. This includes all
creative designand artwork for inserts, liners, CD labels, brochures, advertisements, retail
packaging, point-of-purchasematerials and other marketing collaterals, software development, licensing, quality control and assurance, film output, and scanning.
