CD-ROM PUBLISHER DEBUTS WITH THREE TITLES

Dayton, IN, July 26,1994 -- The newly founded Alan Rand Multimedia Group,
Inc. announced its initial three products -- CD-ROMs entitled Search for
the Right Whale, Dive to the Coral Reefs, and Sterling: Rescue of a Baby
Harbor Seal.

David R. Leininger, its President said today, "We're in the business of
adapting print to electronic media. We add film, photos, voices,
animation, background sounds, music, and imagination. Our first trio of
products are CD-ROMs based on award-winning books previously published by
Crown Publishing and written by authors at the New England Aquarium."

"We're aiming at the home computer market. We use our considerable
experience and skills and networks of computers to create software which
is distributed to the consumer on a CD-ROM ... a marvelous device which
brings fantastic visual and aural experiences right to the home computer.
Our products are compelling and educational. We are careful to provide
wholesome, family-oriented content," Leininger noted.

Publication rights are purchased from Publishers and Authors. Alan Rand
Multimedia Group also services Publishers who do not have their own
development facilities, on a copublishing basis. The new company also
commissions Authors to develop storylines and titles for publication in
electronic media.

The Alan Rand catalogue to be issued shortly will list 15 titles in the
fields of sports, science discovery, children's literature, travel,
cooking, and consumer reference by internationally known authors.

Mr. Leininger heads an experienced staff of CD-ROM developers which
includes a number of prominent consultants. Development takes place
primarily in Indiana, where the company maintains digital photo and video
archives for much of its imagery. Consultants in New York, Georgia, Texas,
and California participate in project developments by electronically
transmitting and receiving messages, program code and multimedia files
through Internet, CompuServe, and America OnLine.

Mr. Leininger said, "We have retained Sidney B. Kramer of the Mews Literary
Agency to advise us on titles to be published and to introduce us to the
publishing world. Mr. Kramer is one of the founders of Bantam Books,
formerly President of New American Library (now part of Penguin Books), a
founder of Corgi Books in London, and an active Literary Agent and
Attorney.

Mr. Kramer says, "Electronic publishing is as exciting as the introduction
of the mass market paperback was in the 1940s. It's a revolutionary way to
entertain and pass information."

Leininger said, "More and more adaptations will be developed on CD-ROM
because the whole family can join in and explore this new world together.
The CD-ROM is simply a different medium for delivering content.
Interactively exploring that content in words, pictures, and sound is, as
reading, a use of our leisure time." He continued, "Basing the discs on
previously published and, therefore, known content is one key to providing
products which offer high value for the consumer's leisure time dollars
while bringing the family closer together."

Search for the Right Whale is a documentary of the rarest whale in the
ocean, the North Atlantic Right Whale, whose population may be as few as
350 animals. The New England Aquarium has been following migrations of the
Right Whale since the 1980s in an effort to protect their habitat and help
bring these whales back from the brink of extinction. This CD-ROM is based
on one of 1993's best books chosen by the editors of School Library
Journal and awarded the "Outstanding Science Trade Book for 1994" by the
National Science Teachers' Association.

Dive to the Coral Reef is an introduction for children and adults to life
in and around a Caribbean coral reef. It was a Reading Rainbow main
selection, a Booklist Children's Editors Choice, and a National Science
Teachers' Association "Outstanding Science Trade Book for 1986."

Sterling: Rescue of a Baby Harbor Seal is an account of a baby Harbor Seal
abandoned off the coast of New England. The seal was rehabilitated in the
New England Aquarium's Animal Care Center, and then released to the wild.
It was voted "Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children in 1989" by the
joint committee of the Children's Book Council and the National Science
Teachers' Association.

The Microsoft Windows-based discs will be released in September and October
at a suggested retail price of $29.95.

Alan Rand Multimedia Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 400
Dayton, IN 47941-0400
(317) 449-1000, fax (317) 449-1727

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