Planetwide Media and Lulu.com Announce Direct Digital Publishing Solution for Comic Book Creator Software and HyperComics.com
Dynamic Publishing Technology Duo Empowers Consumers to Create and Publish Personalized Comic Books with Interactive Entertainment Software.
Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) May 8, 2007 -- Planetwide Media, a pioneer in interactive personalized media software and Lulu.com, the web's premier online marketplace where anyone can print and publish their user-generated content today announced a strategic partnership and agreement enabling Comic Book Creator™ users to create and publish their personalized comic books, storybooks or yearbooks in a professional-looking physical book format using Lulu.com's direct digital printing technology. Users will soon be able to log onto www.HyperComics.com to utilize the Planetwide Media's Comic Book Creator software and then print and publish their authentic-looking comic book creations to www.Lulu.com.
Lulu.com provides a dynamic publishing technology that combines design power and collaboration functionality to deliver an unparalleled solution for creators of comic books, video, periodicals, multimedia and other digital content. Users can now publish their own user-generated content themselves with complete editorial and copyright control by using Lulu.com technology as a platform to sell and market their outstanding comic book creations.
"We are excited about this partnership with Planetwide Media," said Rob Katz, Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Lulu.com. "Now, comic book creators can have their own personalized comic book printed and published using Lulu's print-on-demand technology."
Planetwide Media's Comic Book Creator is an easy-to-use personalized media software platform. Its best-of-breed suite of design tools embrace user-generated content and enable comic book fans to import their own digital content and officially licensed assets from Planetwide's global partners' IP to create their own personalized comic books. Users can drag and drop images, backgrounds, artwork, animated GIFs, audio clips, logos, icons, tag lines, symbols and clip art into a selection of more than 500 different layout and design templates. The completed creations can then be posted to blogs or social networks, e-mailed to friends, printed in comic book format or published to Planetwide's comic fans online social network at www.HyperComics.com.
"Have you ever dreamed of creating and publishing your own comic book? Stop dreaming and start creating," said Kevin Donovan, President of Planetwide Media. "We couldn't be happier with the strategic relationship with Lulu.com for being able to provide our customers-creators with Lulu's direct digital printing technology. Comic book fans and creators will soon be able to publish their professional-grade comic books through Lulu.com."
About Lulu:
Lulu.com is the premier marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 170,000 recently published titles, and more than 5,000 new titles added each week, created by consumers in 80 different countries. With one million registered users, Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling the creators of books, video, periodicals, multimedia and other content to publish their work themselves with complete editorial and copyright control. Lulu empowers these individuals and corporations to create high quality content products to sell directly to their customers and the rest of the Lulu.com marketplace. With storefronts provided as well as other marketing assistance, creators are fully supported to profit from their work. With Lulu offices in the U.S., Canada and Europe, Lulu customers can reach the globe.
About Planetwide Media:
Planetwide Media, (a division of Planetwide Games, Inc.) provides a unique and patent-pending, interactive, self-publishing personalized media platform for a wide audience of emerging consumers in the digital media space. The company provides web-enabled tools, software applications and video games that provide personal interactivity. The company's signature product, Comic Book Creator™ is the best-of-breed digital media platform that embraces user-generated content and enables users to blend their creations into their social networks, blogs and across the web. Comic Book Creator is an easy-to-use platform that provides the consumer with a richly enhanced interactive digital experience. Planetwide Media is currently licensing the Comic Book Creator technology and partnering with world-class entertainment, video games, sports, music and lifestyle brands worldwide.
Visit www.myplanetwide.com, www.mycomicbookcreator.com and www.hypercomics.com for more information.
Comic Book Creator TM & © 2007 Planetwide Games, Inc. All rights reserved.
Media Contacts:
Media Contacts:
Gail Jordan
http://www.Lulu.com
Planetwide Media
Mark Politi
Vice President Marketing and Media Relations
949.421.0488 Ext. 4212 Office
310.409.5938 Mobile
http://www.myplantwide.com
Jenny Chong
Terpin Communications Group
310.821.6100, Ext. 103
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