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iReadNet: "video news service for people who read"

iReadNet has launched the first video news service exclusively for people who read, company president and founder, Kurt Aldag, announced today. The new web-based video news service, called PubBuzz, recently began streaming 60 videos of author news and book events, which can be accessed for free from the iReadNet homepage (www.ireadnet.com) or directly at http://www.pubbuzz.com/

From article about iReadNet at "ForRelease.com"
Michael Moore, Molly Ivins, Al Franken, Bill O'Reilly, Susan Orlean, Walter Isaacson, Madeleine Albright, and Maxine Hong Kingston Headline First Edition of PubBuzz(TM)

Visitors can tune in to Michael Moore, Molly Ivins and Susan Orlean talking about their work; see the controversial Franken-O'Reilly confrontation; hear about Ben Franklin's exploits from bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson; check out what Madeleine Albright, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri have been reading; watch Carl Reiner and Dale Brown improvise; find out why Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior herself, took fourteen years to write The Fifth Book of Peace; see authors and scenes from New York Is Book Country, and catch National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia talking about Poetry and Politics in America.

"Each week, PubBuzz will launch new videos featuring book news and author events from around the country," said Aldag, a former publishing publicity and sales promotion executive. "Think of us as a digital video magazine featuring book news and author events. Our revenues come from the virtual book tour services we provide rather than traditional advertising."

posted by Charlie @ 3:52 PM