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- “Desert Storm” on CD-ROM via Time|Warner New Media
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- Contact: Robert Pondiscio
- Time Magazine
- 1271 Ave of the Americas, Rm.2719
- New York, NY 10020
- (212)522-5196
- Contact: Linda Rich or Kim Sudhalter
- Warner New Media
- 3500 W. Olive, Suite 1050
- Burbank, CA 91505
- (818)955-9999
- Applelink: WNM.MKTG
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- NEW YORK, N.Y.--TIME magazine will pioneer a new form of publishing with
- “Desert Storm: The First Draft of History,” a multimedia magazine on CD-ROM.
- The disc, designed to be used with a personal computer, will be available April
- 22, 1991.
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- A joint venture between TIME Magazine and Warner New Media, “Desert Storm” will
- give readers a week-by-week look at the Gulf Crisis as covered by TIME, and
- will include an extraordinary volume of war-related stories, reports,
- photographs and maps.
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- The disc will contain the equivalent of over 6000 pages of information,
- including unique material previously unavailable to the public. "Desert Storm"
- consists of original dispatches from TIME correspondents around the world, pool
- reports, audio recordings and hundreds of photographs -- the “building blocks”
- that go into producing TIME every week. Individual stories, reports, pictures
- and audio are organized in a simple, easy-to-follow format, indexed
- chronologically and by subject matter.
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- “We've tried to bring the immediacy of TIME Magazine to electronic publishing,”
- says Stan Cornyn, president of Warner New Media. “That means layers of depth
- beyond the one-time experience of news. We hope this ‘first draft of history’
- will present the news as never before.”
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- CD-ROM (Compact Disc - Read Only Memory) is similar to the Compact Disc
- familiar to music lovers, except that the information stored on the CD is
- accessible via the personal computer. A Macintosh computer and a CD-ROM drive
- are required to run "Desert Storm."
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- A RUNNING HISTORY OF THE WAR
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- "Desert Storm: The First Draft of History," will offer a computer user the
- option to pick a week during the war and gain immediate access to TIME
- reporters’ files, pictures and audio tapes filed during that week. The disc
- follows the evolution of a story as it develops from a bureau or war zone,
- through the hands of reporters, writers and editors, to the actual article as
- it appeared in TIME.
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- To create this full-color, multi-media experience, thousands of reports,
- pictures and audio clips from TIME journalists in the Middle East and bureaus
- around the world were assembled and processed for the disc publication during
- the course of the war.
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- “We are attempting to publish practically overnight in a medium that typically
- takes six months to a year to create a finished product,” says Dick Duncan,
- executive editor of TIME. “We've been assembling information chronologically
- since the U.N.’s January 15th deadline, encoding it for the disc as quickly as
- we can.”
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- The “Desert Storm” CD-ROM will be available from computer software and other
- retail stores for a suggested list price of $39.99. Distributors carrying
- “Desert Storm” will include WEA, Ingram Micro D Inc., Macamerica, Merisel,
- Educorp Computer Services and the Bureau of Electronic Publishing.
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- SPECIAL OFFER--Warner New Media has arranged for Apple employees to purchase
- Desert Storm for only $25.00 through Apple's company store. This offer expires
- May 31, 1991.
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- Warner New Media, Time Warner's electronic publishing division, is a company
- developing new forms of information-rich entertainment from mixes of graphics,
- music, interactivity, animation, computer control, narration and video. By
- coupling information and entertainment resources to state-of-the-art
- technology, Warner New Media is defining future home entertainment. Its Audio
- Notes series of computer-enhanced, interactive music CD-ROMs includes Mozart's
- “The Magic Flute,” Beethoven’s “The String Quartet” and Brahms’ “A German
- Requiem.”
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