(Chesapeake, VA – August
30, 2000) – CollectingChannel.com (http://www.collectingchannel.com/),
an affinity-based content provider converging technology with
multiple media forms to provide unique content to the antique and
collectibles community, announced today the selection of their
Maloney's Antiques and Collectibles Resource Directory as
recommended reading by online auction leader Ebay.com (http://www.ebay.com/,
Nasdaq:EBAY).
Authored by CollectingChannel’s Chief Appraisal Officer David J.
Maloney, ISA CAPP, the resource directory was in the select company
of only 7 other titles recommended as starting points for learning
about the vast field of antiques and collectibles. With its fifth
edition now in print, Maloney’s guide has been referred to as “the
bible of the collecting world”, and is packed with over 18,000
listings including websites, experts, buyers, clubs, and
publications. Collectors have come to rely on Maloney's Antiques and
Collectibles Resource Directory as a comprehensive source of
collecting information.
“David Maloney is the ‘good housekeeping seal of approval’ in the
world of antiques and collectibles,” said CollectingChannel CEO Mark
Stuart. “This selection further affirms our efforts to provide the
finest resources and services to the collecting community.”
This year has also seen the release of several pieces of new
functionality by CollectingChannel.com, including: an Auctions tab
featuring Ebay.com, the Wanted to Buy tab featuring reverse auction
provider eWanted.com; online appraisals from Ask The Appraiser™,
customized collecting news from MyCollecting™, Over 1 million
collectibles for sale in the Collector’s Mart (cMart™); as well as
interactive price guides powered by CollectorBooks
(www.collectorbooks.com) in Price Guides, and 24/7 collecting
focused original programming in Broadcast.
About CollectingChannel.com
CollectingChannel.com (http://www.collectingchannel.com/)
is ChannelSpace Entertainment Inc’s (CSEI) first affinity channel
and serves as a gateway to the Internet for avid collectors of all
kinds. CollectingChannel.com provides a virtual,
entertainment-driven "mega-mall” including the latest information
and expert opinions on everything collectible on topics such as
antiques, pop culture items, sports, stamps and coins -- through
up-to-the-minute audio/video programming and news articles.
With the exception of historical matters, this press release
contains express or implied forward-looking information about
ChannelSpace's products and markets, including statements concerning
product availability, market acceptance and the market opportunity
for this product. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause
actual results, performance or achievements of ChannelSpace to be
materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements.
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