Digital Media

The rapidly-expanding Imaginova Network reaches over 10 million monthly unique visitors.* Imaginova’s owned and operated sites, including LiveScience.com, Space.com, Aviation.com and Newsarama.com, offer premium content that is syndicated to leading portals such as Yahoo!, MSNBC, AOL and FoxNews.com. Affiliates in the Imaginova Network include Bartleby.com, Earth911.com, NewScientist.com and ScientificBlogging.com. Imaginova Studios, our in-house software development and video team, produces multimedia content as well as online applications for our interactive brands.

*Source: Omniture, March 2008; Google Analytics

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LiveScience.com chronicles the daily advances and innovations made in science and technology, converting often-complex concepts into "water-cooler science." It not only reports the news, it takes on the misconceptions that often pop up around scientific discoveries and delivers short, provocative explanations with a certain wit and style.

Launched in 1999, Space.com offers rich and compelling content about space science, travel and exploration as well as astronomy, technology, business news and more.

Newsarama.com is the go-to source for daily comic book and genre entertainment news, reviews and commentary. Newsarama’s passionate audience frequently contributes to lively discussions on a range of topics including classic and new comics, movies, TV shows, manga, anime, and more.

Aviation.com is the one-stop destination for all the news you can use to fly better. The site caters to a broad audience ranging from frequent fliers looking to improve their air travel to passionate enthusiasts who want to read the latest about the industry and its innovations.

Space News is the publication and Web site of record for the space industry and keeps professionals up-to-date with the latest news and information. Space News is also a media partner of leading space conferences, including Strategic Space & Defense.

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Bartleby.com publishes the most up-to-date collection of reference works as well as classic, fiction, nonfiction and verse on the Web. Its ever-expanding list of books - currently thousands of works by hundreds of authors - provides millions of students, educators and the intellectually curious with unparalleled access to reference books and classics.

Earth911.com empowers consumers to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability. Its local recycling search engine makes it easy for people to find neighboring centers to safely discard items including appliances, electronics, raw materials and more.

Launched in 1996, NewScientist.com is one of the top science and technology sites in the UK. The Web site covers space, technology and the environment through news articles, blogs, a podcast series and regular vodcasts.

ScientificBlogging.com is an engaging community where featured writers, including best-selling authors and renowned scientists, contribute to writing articles and blogs that encourage further discussions about physical science, earth science, biology, medicine, neuroscience and culture.

Natural History has been affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History for more than 100 years and has expanded its affiliation with other science centers and museums throughout the United States. Natural History is the authoritative voice that its curious readers turn to for informed insights and understanding of natural phenomena.

Commerce

Imaginova’s commerce division offers high-quality consumer products sold through eCommerce, catalog and retail channels.

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars is the largest multi-channel marketer of quality optics for amateur astronomers and outdoor enthusiasts in North America. It offers more than 60 telescope models, 50 styles of binoculars and over 500 related accessories for all levels of stargazers.

The Starry Night Store is the online source for Starry Night software and other high-quality astronomy products. Starry Night is the world's leading line of astronomy simulation software designed to serve as a realistic desktop planetarium.

The LiveScience Store provides merchandise that complements LiveScience.com’s content. The store contains a wide variety of science-themed toys, games, gadgets and gear that entertain intellectually curious consumers of all ages.

Education

Imaginova produces a highly-regarded line of educational science simulation products that engage students of all ages and teach them the fundamentals of space science.

The Starry Night team has collaborated with leading science centers and planetarium makers to bring the visual beauty and accuracy of Starry Night to larger screens and domes. Starry Night software powers the leading digital planetarium systems in the educational world: Spitz Inc.'s SciDome and Learning Technology Inc.'s Digital STARLAB.

Starry Night Education provides leading astronomy and space science curriculum software and DVDs for elementary, middle and high school classrooms. The software is also integrated into top college astronomy textbooks.