An Electronic Roadmap to the Best on the Net

Seven Ventana authors compile cyberdirectory

Chapel Hill, N.C., January 9, 1995--The publisher of the best-selling
Windows Internet Tour Guide now presents a comprehensive directory of the
best services, information and points of interest on the Internet.
Internet Roadside Attractions: Sights, sounds & scenes along the
information superhighway, new from Ventana Press, is a compilation of
favorite Internet sites from the perspectives of seven veteran Internet
surfers, writers and developers. The book includes a CD-ROM with Ventana
Mosaic and a continually updated Online Companion.

Organized by topic and indexed by Internet client, Internet Roadside
Attractions references more than 500 resources, including games, World
Wide Web sites, gophers, chat areas, news groups and WAIS databases. Each
reference includes an anecdotal description followed by access information
for all the tools available for that listing. The authors include:

GARETH BRANWYN--author of the blockbuster Mosaic Quick Tour (Ventana Press)
and contributing editor to the Internet-oriented magazines Wired and bOING
bOING.

LUKE DUNCAN--noted Internet pioneer and programmer, former Sunsite
developer and Ventana Online visionary.

SEAN CARTON--contributor to Mosaic Quick Tour (Ventana Press) and writer
for bOING bOING and Link Magazine.

TOM LICHTY--author of The Official America Online Membership Kit & Tour
Guide and America Online's Internet (both from Ventana Press).

DONALD ROSE--consultant and lecturer, and author of Minding Your
Cybermanners (Alpha Books) and CyberLife! (Sams).

SHANNON R. TURLINGTON editor of Cyberkind, a Web-based magazine of
Internet-related fiction, nonfiction and poetry; and author of Walking the
World Wide Web (Ventana Press).

JAN WEINGARTEN--coauthor of SmartSuite Desktop Companion and The Visual
Guide to Paradox for Windows (both from Ventana Press).

The Internet Roadside Attractions CD-ROM contains a copy of Ventana Mosaic,
developed for Ventana by Spyglass, Inc., distributors of the commercial
version of NCSA Mosaic, the acclaimed World Wide Web browser. The CD-ROM
also contains the searchable full text of the book with hyperlinks to
online content. Readers can develop an itinerary off-line at their
leisure, then log on and use this hyperlinked version of the book to
point-and-click their way through some of the best the Internet has to
offer; or automatically connect to the Internet by selecting a live
Internet link from the CD-ROM-based listing.

The book's Online Companion, developed by Ventana Online and residing on
Ventana's World Wide Web server, features a sampler of the sites from each
chapter of the book. The URL for the Internet Roadside Attractions Online
Companion is http://www.vmedia.com/ira.html. Also, a continually-updated,
online version of the book, with annotated hyperlinks to each site, is
available via a key code obtained from an individualized card inserted in
the book.

Internet Roadside Attractions: Sights, sounds & scenes along the
information superhighway is 500 pages, illustrated, with CD-ROM and an
Online Companion. ISBN: 1-56604-193-7. Suggested retail price: $29.95. For
orders in the U.S. only, call 800/743-5369.

Ventana Press and Ventana Online are divisions of Ventana Communications
Group, Inc., a diversified publisher of computer-related information
tools. Ventana Online supports Ventana products with Internet-based
content and context. Ventana Press publishes books and other materials
that help computer users become more productive, including The Mac
Internet Tour Guide, Voodoo UNIX, The System 7.5 Book, The Visual Basic
Power Toolkit and Looking Good in Print. All titles are available in
bookstores and by writing Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC
27515; by calling Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369; by faxing
Ventana at 919/9421140; by e-mail at orders@vmedia.com; or via the World
Wide Web at http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

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