Firms Join to Develop New Interactive Ed. Materials

Jones Interactive, Inc. and Optimum Resource, Inc. have formed a partnership to develop and market educational print, video and multimedia materials.Their first title will be Learn to Read with Stickybear, a multi-age reading skills product that will debut first as a video/print package, then on CD-ROM.Optimum, based in Norfolk, Conn., is creating the software and print components for projects; it will also market the products to schools. Jones will do marketingvia its Jones Education Networks, such as ME/U and JCN. Jones/ Optimum Media, Hilton Head, SC, (800) 327-1473.

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