NEW YORK- 5/31/2006 - Macrovision® Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) today announced that The Taunton Press, leading publishers of magazines and books for more than thirty years, has deployed eRights Suite to enable registration and sell subscriptions to digital content on its newly launched FineWoodworking.com site.
Designed for serious hobbyists, pros and weekend warriors alike, the new site is a comprehensive resource for woodworking advice, how-to video instructions, incisive tool reviews, great project ideas and live forums with expert woodworkers. The first in a series of planned major overhauls to the Taunton magazine Web sites,
FineWoodworking.com sets the bar high for enthusiast magazines that have made the move to the Web.
FineWoodworking.com contains Web-only exclusive content as well as repurposed material from the print magazine.
"We're very excited about the new FineWoodworking.com site and the premium content it offers subscribers," said Bob Steigerwald, Manager of Web Technology, The Taunton Press. "With eRights Suite, we now have the ability to generate additional revenue and increase productivity. The sophisticated registration system both authorizes access and helps us track user behavior for intelligent marketing initiatives. Additionally, we can offer and manage subscriptions through eRights Suite's commerce application."
RightAccess, the access control product within eRights Suite, provides The Taunton Press with authorization, authentication, delegated administration, product segmentation and registration capabilities. RightCommerce, the commerce product within eRights Suite, allows Taunton to sell digital content using varied business models, including pay-per-view, bundles and subscriptions. eRights Suite is also integrated with Taunton's existing print fulfillment systems, a key challenge for many publishers.
"The Taunton Press is the latest addition to our growing list of magazine customers," said Fred Amoroso, CEO, Macrovision. "With eRights Suite, The Taunton Press has myriad opportunities to grow its online enterprise, whether selling access to text-based content or audio and video."
eRights Suite, available both as an installed or hosted (ASP) solution, allows organizations to effectively control and commercialize digital goods and services, including text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software applications.
About The Taunton Press
The Taunton Press, leading publishers of books and magazines on the house and home, has been celebrating creativity and inspiring readers to pursue their passions for more than 30 years. Written by practicing experts in the fields of home building, home design, cooking gardening, woodworking, and fiber arts, Taunton products are widely regarded as leaders in their fields and praised as the highest quality in their respective categories.
Taunton's family of niche magazines include Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Fine Gardening, Fine Cooking, Threads and related special-interest titles. Publisher of more than 500 book titles, Taunton's line-up includes best-selling author and home design visionary Sarah Susanka's Not So Big House series; Jeremiah Eck's The Face of Home, the sixth title in a joint publishing venture with the AIA; How To Break an Egg by the editors of Fine Cooking; The best-selling Idea Book series, more than 20 titles strong; the highly acclaimed Complete Illustrated Guide to Woodworking series; and the home improvement series, For Pros By Pros.
A trusted source of valuable information and inspiration, millions of consumers choose Taunton magazines, books, DVDs, and Web sites to improve their skills and expand their horizons. Established in 1975, Taunton is a privately held publishing company headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut.
www.taunton.com.
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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