Ventana Updates Original Graphical Guides to the Internet

Best-selling Tour Guides feature new software, listings, Online Companion

Chapel Hill, N.C., January 9, 1995 -- Ventana Press announces second
editions of its best-selling Windows Internet Tour Guide and Mac Internet
Tour Guide. These uniquely readable guides have been updated with
information on the burgeoning World Wide Web, new Internet software and
other recent developments on the world's largest network. A special access
offer and software allow Macintosh and Windows users to navigate the
Internet with a graphical interface. Both books include an Online
Companion, maintained by Ventana Online, providing additional Internet
resources.

Both Mac and Windows versions now include Ventana Mosaic, developed for
Ventana by Spyglass, Inc., distributors of the commercial version of NCSA
Mosaic, the acclaimed World Wide Web browser, and Ventana
Installer/Configurer--custom software for easy account registration with a
national service provider.

The Windows Internet Tour Guide comes with WinVN, a threaded freeware news
reader; and Chameleon Sampler from NetManage a fully functional version of
the commercial software package that provides WINSOCK.DLL, a TCP/IP stack,
and graphical clients for e-mail, file transfer, TELNET, TN3270 and Ping.

The Mac Internet Tour Guide includes MacTCP, connection protocol software
from Apple; InterSLIP, a freeware tool from InterCon, Inc., for
connecting; Eudora, a shareware e-mail client; Fetch, a shareware file
transfer client; TurboGopher, a shareware browser; Nuntius, a freeware
newsgroup reader; and Stuffit Expander, a shareware file decompressor.

A new chapter on the World Wide Web and an expanded listing of more than
300 of the most interesting and useful Internet sites augment the eloquent
software documentation and the introductory material from the first
editions.

Internet Tour Guide purchasers also receive free registration for a trial
SLIP account with a national service provider. Details are forthcoming.

The books' Online Companion, developed by Ventana Online and residing on
Ventana's World Wide Web server, provides access to the free software
discussed in the books; an Internet Help Center, offering links to
Internet help documents on the Web; and links to all the sites described
in the listings chapter. The URL for The Windows Internet Tour Guide
Online Companion is http://www.vmedia.com/witg.html. The URL for The Mac
Internet Tour Guide Online Companion is http://www.vmedia.com/mitg.html
Versions of the Online Companions are also available via FTP at
ftp.vmedia.com/pubs/companions/itg.

The Windows Internet Tour Guide and The Mac Internet Tour Guide are
distributed by Ventana Press. The books are 400 pages, illustrated, with
disk. ISBN: Macintosh Edition: 1-56604-173-2. ISBN, Windows Edition:
1-56604-174-0. List 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 PC Internet
Tour Guide, Mosaic Quick Tour, The Official America Online Membership Kit
& Tour Guide, Voodoo UNIX, America Online's Internet, The Mac Shareware
500 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
919/942-1140; by e-mail via orders@vmedia.com; or via the World Wide Web
at http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

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