Best-Selling Book About Baseball Now Available on Floppy Diskette Macmillan
Announces Release of Coming Apart at the Seams, Expanded Book Edition

Cambridge, November 15--Macmillan's best-seller, Coming Apart At the Seams:
How Baseball Owners, Players and Television Executives Led Our National
Pastime to the Brink of Disaster, is now available as an Expanded Book, a
floppy diskette product for Apple's popular PowerBook computer or any
Macintosh. Photographs and audio features have been added to the Expanded
Book edition, published by Cambridge-based Macmillan New Media, a leading
producer and distributor of electronic and multimedia titles for the
consumer, professional and medical markets.

Co-authored by sports lawyer Jack Sands and baseball analyst Peter Gammons,
Coming Apart at the Seams provides an insider's view on the chaotic state
of baseball today, and presents the authors' remedy for the sport's
survival into the 21st century. The book highlights the conflicts between
baseball owners, players, agents and television networks that are
contributing to the demise of our national pastime.

According to Sands, "The problems that have been besieging major-league
baseball since the mid-1970's can be traced to one factor: greed. The
battle over how to split the revenue pie has created a schism between the
owners themselves, as well as between the owners and players. Money colors
everything, to the extent that the sport is no longer driven by on-field
confrontations, but rather, by back-room negotiations. As a result, the
integrity of the game is now at risk."

The electronic benefits of the Expanded Book bring the world of baseball to
life, with features that allow the reader to interact with the printed
word. Readers can view photographs of historical stadiums, key players and
other prominent baseball personalities, simply by clicking on their
respective names in the text. They can also hear recorded sounds from a
live baseball game and batting practice. There's also an option that lets
users search for favorite teams or players by typing in the name. Other
functions include the ability to highlight memorable quotes or passages by
bolding or underlining text, type notes in the margins, and mark pages
with a dog-ear or paper clip--without creating the wear-and-tear these
actions would cause in the print version.

Said Frederick Bowes, III, President of Macmillan New Media, "The
interactive capabilities of the Expanded Book add appeal to a book like
Coming Apart At The Seams which engages the reader with accounts of major
people and events in baseball's past and present. And the hot issues being
debated now, such as league realignment and the regionalization of
televised games, make the topic particularly timely."

For business travelers, the Expanded Book format offers the added
convenience of portability. Designed specially for the lightweight
PowerBook, it can be loaded on a reader's hard drive, leaving them with
less to carry when they're on the go.

Other Expanded Book titles available from Macmillan New Media include The
Empowered Manager (from the Jossey-Bass Management Series), by Peter
Block; I Love Boston Guide, by Marilyn J. Appleberg; All That Remains, by
Patricia D. Cornwell; and The Fragile Species, by Lewis Thomas. Soon to be
released titles include Marilyn J. Appleberg's I Love New York and I Love
Washington Guides.

Jack Sands has been providing legal council to athletes from all major team
sports for twenty years, and is best known for his representation of major
league baseball players. Peter Gammons, ESPN's chief baseball analyst, is
a sports writer for the Boston Globe and is syndicated in Baseball
America. Both authors live with their families in greater Boston.

Macmillan New Media
124 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138
617-661-2955, fax 617-868-7738

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