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#Are U a CD-ROM Publisher

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#36844From: Paul Zane PilzerJan 13, 1993 5:30 PM

Do you publish or distribute (DOS or Windows) CD-ROMs? Our company (ZCI) will be launching a line of multimedia CD-ROMs with full-page advertising (for each title) in PC MAGAZINE (beginning Jan 20 with the Feb issue). We will be offering discs at full retail with direct response advertising. We would like to give away a free bonus CD-ROM (DOS or Windows) from another company with our disc. If you know of a CD-ROM disc that we could distribute in this way, please E-MAIL me where to contact you. The ideal disc would be a non-current monthly subscription to a service, or an older version of an existing disc. We will, of course, supply the provider of such a disc with the full information on each CD-ROM owner who gets one. In certain cases, we are paying a few dollars for each disc where the publisher does not benefit indirectly. Thank you. Paul Zane Pilzer ZCI, Inc.

#36846From: Peter SillsJan 13, 1993 5:57 PM

Can you tell us more about the titles you are releasing?

#36876From: Paul Zane PilzerJan 13, 1993 11:59 PM

We are a full-service CD-ROM publisher coming out with many (MANY) titles under different "labels." Labels currently include Medicine (single-disease titles like Migraines, Psoriasis, etc), Law (multimedia bar review, LSAT, Contracts for Businesspeople), General Education (Malcolm X, JFK Assassination, many secondary school subjects), and weekly newsmagazine publishing. I'm somewhat contrained in speaking about unreleased titles. We are also doing A LOT of self-paced learning applications (Series 7 exams, SAT, Public Speaking, etc.) Take a look at the Feb. issue of PC MAGAZINE (First Looks section) and then every issue thereafter.

#36911From: Peter SillsJan 14, 1993 9:54 AM

Sounds interesting. Are these DOS applications? Or do I need to deal with the "overhead" of Windows?

#36933From: Paul Zane PilzerJan 14, 1993 5:11 PM

They are DOS and Windows. (The data and audio/video is in a standard form, and we provide separate Windows, DOS, MMCD and VIS operating engines to view/use it). The title we are opening with next week (in PC MAGAZINE) is a DOS application that looks like very fast windows but runs on any DOS machine above a 286. It's called MULTIMEDIA POWERTALK!