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Digital Publishing, the first and only company solely focused on digital magazine archive products, today announced an exclusive publishing and software partnership with Wenner Media, publisher of the world-renowned Rolling Stone magazine. As part of this exclusive deal, New York-based Bondi
Digital Publishing will convert the iconic magazine's entire printed history to digital format and use its proprietary digital archiving platform to publish Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover: The First 40 Years. The unique searchable DVD will contain digital replicas of every article, review, and photograph just as they appeared on the pages of the famed magazine. To be released in the Fall of 2007 in celebration of its 40th anniversary, Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover will be the first digital archive of the magazine.
"Wenner Media and Rolling Stone magazine have witnessed every milestone in rock-and-roll history and covered the most culturally influential stories of our age," said Murat Aktar, co-founder of Bondi Digital Publishing. "That the company looked to Bondi to bring that venerable history into the 21st century offers further validation of the need for our product."
"With over 125,000 pages from more than 1,000 issues, our digital archive will be like having the entire illustrated history of rock and pop culture at your fingertips," added David Anthony, co-founder of Bondi Digital Publishing. "Readers will be able to search and access every U2 or Eminem article, check out Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo dispatches, view the legendary 1981 John Lennon/Yoko Ono cover or enjoy Jonathan Lethem's recent Bob Dylan interview- exactly as each looked on the magazine's pages."
First published on November 9, 1967, Rolling Stone magazine has long stood as the premiere publication dedicated to music, movies, pop culture and national affairs. The magazine's circulation is currently at a record high reaching over 12 million readers. Rolling Stone was recently nominated by the American Society of Magazine Editors for two 2007 National Magazine Awards in the categories of General Excellence and Reporting.
"We've scanned every page of every issue of all forty years of Rolling Stone's history, from Beatlemania and the Summer of Love, through the dark disco years and invention of punk rock, right on through to hip hop, grunge and emo," says Keith Blanchard, Wenner Media's Executive Director, Online. "Readers can suddenly have the entire Rolling Stone library at their fingertips, in a beautiful, searchable, easy-to-use format."
In addition to introducing Rolling Stone's first-ever comprehensive digital archive product to consumers, Bondi Digital Publishing has also been contracted by Wenner Media, publishers of Men's Journal and US Weekly, to install a networked version of its unique software for use in its corporate offices.
Bondi Digital Publishing's deal with Wenner Media marks the third in a series of major licensing and publishing deals for the three-year-old software publishing company. In 2004, The New Yorker selected the company to develop the software platform behind the magazine's landmark 80th anniversary box set, The Complete New Yorker. Bondi Digital Publishing announced its first publishing undertaking in January 2007, an exclusive partnership with Playboy Enterprises, in which the software publishing company's team will convert every issue of Playboy to digital and publish The Playboy Cover-to-Cover Series, based on similar concepts as the Rolling Stone digital archive boxed set.
