WebLaunches New Media Launch Strategy

Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment today announced the creation of a new long-term global venture to focus on the production and exploitation of music, television, film and digital content.
The new venture will own all of the existing Syco television and music assets, which include the global TV franchises “The X Factor” and “Got [...]

Continuing to deliver on its promise to provide customers access to the widest selection of content available, Sony today announced relationships with Author Solutions, Inc. and Smashwords, Inc. Together with Sony, these companies will give independent authors and small publishers the opportunity to offer content through the Reader Store.

AMC and Sony Pictures Television Team Up to Debut Exclusive Web Content
Five Original Minisodes, An Interactive Personalized Viral Video and Breaking Bad Season One Premieres on ‘The Minisode Network’
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and AMC announced today that they are giving fans of the Emmy(R) Award-winning series Breaking Bad three different ways to get [...]

PSP continues to take interactive entertainment experiences to new heights
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the cumulative worldwide sell-in units of PSP(R)(PlayStation(R)Portable) handheld entertainment system (PSP-1000, 2000 and 3000 series) reached a total of 50 million units(*1) as of January 2009.
As the first handheld platform from the PlayStation(R) family, PSP made [...]

Libraries Give Booklovers another Choice for Content
American Library Association Mid-Winter Meeting – Libraries have a new alternative for providing access to compelling reading material. Starting today, OCLC’s NetLibrary will offer libraries five Sony Reader Mobile Collections – groups of eBooks which can be read on Sony’s Reader Digital Book.
The program includes a Reader model [...]

Oprah Winfrey Tops The Hollywood Reporter’s 17th Annual Women in Entertainment: Power 100 List; Disney’s Anne Sweeney Comes in at Number Two and Sony’s Amy Pascal Claims the Third Spot
Oprah Winfrey, Harpo, Inc. Chairman has been named the most powerful woman in entertainment on The Hollywood Reporter’s 17th annual Women in Entertainment: Power 100 [...]

GameStop, the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, today announced that it will host midnight release events for Fallout 3 by Bethesda Softworks at over 1,600 stores nationwide. Starting at [...]

Mixes by Platinumselling artists including Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Seal, Whitney Houston, and Cher now easily found as iPod compatible mp3s on Masterbeat.com.
Masterbeat.com is a new digital download music site that offers consumers a virtual shopping mall of current hits and classic tracks across a wide variety of dance and electronica genres [...]