Cool Entertainment Partners With Music and Video Database Leader, Muze Inc.
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1999--Cool Entertainment Inc. (OTC BB: CULE - news) announced today that they have signed an agreement with Muze Inc., the leading database source in music and video for the electronic commerce marketplace. The agreement calls for a licensing agreement in music and video database.
Muze Inc. (www.muze.com), established in 1991, is an organization dedicated to enhancing enjoyment from entertainment. Today, Muze is an undisputed market leader for a source of data and editorial content about music, books, and video. Muze information solutions can be found in more than 14,000 retail locations, where they enhance commercial activity for leading chain and independent retailers, and on over 60 on-line shopping sites, fueling the interactive on-line revolution in retail entertainment.
Muze's popular music data includes 145,000 titles, 1,370,000 tracks, 60,000 performers, and 61,000 cover-art scans, with more than 3,000 new titles added monthly. Muze data reaches 12 levels deeper than the competition, providing customers the comprehensive information they won't find in any other single resource. Classical music data includes 144,000 unique classical works, 83,000 titles, 14,000 composers, 45,000 soloists, 10,000 ensembles, 6,000 conductors, and 29,000 cover-art scans. Only Muze can offer such detailed, comprehensive information on classical music.
Muze's on-line music, book, and video content are available as a package, and by category. They own and produce the most comprehensive collection of music data available anywhere today. Their database contains more than 220,000 album titles linked by more than 250 genres, artists, songs, and titles. As the leading source of data and editorial content involving music, books, and video, Muze provides the powerful back-end to many of the nation's leading on-line retailers, including Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN - news), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO - news), CDnow (Nasdaq: CDNW - news), Borders Group (NYSE: BGP - news), Blockbuster, Tower, and Big Star Entertainment. Therefore, many leading music retailers use Muze music data because they know it is a proven sales tool that converts on-line browsers into buyers.
Clement Lau, Cool president & CEO states ''We are honored to be on the same team with Muze because Muze's data and content is unmatched for its depth, flexibility, and ease of use. Muze gives on-line consumers the power to locate and preview the entertainment they seek. Muze offers a single, authoritative, easy-to-use resource for customers to access the information they need to make informed purchase decisions.''
Additionally, Muze offers exclusive annotated content, including over 18,000 biographical entries from Muze's Encyclopedia of Popular Music, spanning the history of popular music. Muze data promotes increased sales with product, artist, and genre links that enable customers to easily find current favorites and discover new ones.
Cool Entertainment is a comprehensive, entertainment retail website which will be offering a wide range of products including books, CDs, DVDs, videos, video games and software. The website will also contain value-added services including celebrity interviews, book reviews, online chat rooms, online games, and free email accounts. Cool management is currently exploring additional distribution networks in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
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