Tribune Media's NewsCom.com Adds Award-Winning Fabulous Fragrances.Info Content for Lifestyle and Beauty Editors

NewsCom.com offers Stevie Award-winning Fabulous Fragrances.Info digital articles to magazine and newspaper editors around the world. A venture of Tribune Media Services and Knight Ridder, NewsCom is a one-stop resource for publishers. Now with an entertaining variety of fragrance, spa and beauty content, including FabStyle News articles, and best-selling author Jan Moran's Fabulous Fragrances Spotlights and Scents of Style fragrance advice columns.

Los Angeles, CA November 16, 2004 -- NewsCom begins distribution of new articles and columns from award-winning content provider, Fabulous Fragrances.Info, to editors around the world. A joint venture of Tribune Media Services and Knight Ridder, NewsCom is a one-stop, one-password resource for the publishing industry offering news text, full-length features, photos and stock images. Fabulous Fragrances.Info, a recent Stevie Award winner, offers a variety of fragrance, spa and beauty content, including FabStyle News articles, Fabulous Fragrances Spotlight columns, and Scents of Style fragrance advice columns. Reviews of more than 1000 new and classic fragrances for women and men are now featured on http://www.newscom.com. Preview on http://www.fabulousfragrances.com.

Rizzoli best-selling author, Jan Moran, creator of the Fabulous Fragrances.Info content program from Crescent House Publishing, was recently named Technological Innovator of the Year in The 2004 Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards, hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New York Post (September 22, 2002).

Readers enjoy Morans entertaining fragrance reviews. She includes fragrances from antiquity to the very latest from Prada, Max Mara, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Guerlain and others. Women and men love to discover new fragrances, and learn more about beloved favorites. My reviews include description, theme, history, debut year, and even celebrity patrons. Beauty and spa coverage complete the weekly articles feed.

The Fabulous Fragrances.Info digital content program offers consumer-oriented content in XML format, but fragrance industry professionals also applaud easy access to extensive industry information. Fabulous Fragrances.Info is available in a subscription database for retail decision makers and consultants, as well as through a new corporate content licensing program for retailers.

NewsCom manages, sells and distributes digital content from 70 providers for editorial use. NewsCom's recently upgraded and redesigned digital content Web site offers photos, graphics, news text, full-length text features and stock images. Leading content providers include Reuters, Getty, AFP, EFE, ITAR -TASS, Notimex, ZUMA, Tribune Media Services, Knight Ridder/Tribune, New York Times Syndicate, European Pressphoto Agency, UPI and Fabulous Fragrances.

Bringing together the parties was Silicon Valley content specialist, Elizabeth Karolczak, who represents the new Fabulous Fragrances.Info content program, which can be previewed at http://www.electroniccontent.com/fabfrag.cfm. Karolczak is the President of OSKAR Consulting, a global content licensing agency active since 1991.

Moran is a Harvard Business School graduate, writer and former management consultant. Since 1994, her Fabulous Fragrance books have been sold in Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Marshall Field, Dayton's, Dillards, Amazon, Rizzoli, and major book chains. Gale Hayman and Bijan wrote forewords to the books.

For more information, visit http://www.newscom.com or http://www.fabulousfragrances.com. Press images and details: http://www.fabulousfragrances.com/presskit_main.html. Fabulous Fragrances II book, ISBN: 0-9639065-4-2, $29.95.

Contact Information:
Anne Hammons
Crescent House Publishing
Phone 760-775-9151
http://www.fabulousfragrances.com

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