Publishing

Services
Verbum offers specialized publishing services, new media development, marketing/management consultation and event production to a select circle of clients and partners. For information contact Michael Gosney at mg@verbum.com - Verbum, 3739 Balboa Avenue, #117, San Francisco, CA 94121, 415-379-7371.

Books
Verbum has developed many custom publications for authors and organizations. The group has also produced many Verbum-branded books, including Multimedia Power Tools interactive book/CD-ROM, Kodak's Official Photo CD Handbook with 2 interactive CDs, the 100,000+ selling Desktop Color Book, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Protecting Yourself Online.

Web/CDROM
As one of the catalyzers of the multimedia CD-ROM industry, Verbum has been involved in cutting edge interactive design and production since the late 1980s. Websites and CD-ROMs have been developed for various high tech and consumer accounts, including Peter Norton, Golf and Tennis World and the Ethos Channel. CD-ROMs have been produced for

Journal Archive
In January 1987, Michael Gosney published the first editon of the Verbum Journal, the first magazine devoted to the creative applications of desktop media. Quickly a magnet for not only artists, but also leading developers and entrepreneurs working on the new frontier, each quarterly issue was an example of the latest publishing technology (which was changing and evolving rapidly) as well as a showcase of creativity from top artists. During the late 1980s, Verbum was instrumental in the genesis of the desktop publishing field, and further, through its coverage of digital animation, photography, music composition, video and interactive programming, was a catalyst for what became the multimedia field. In August of 1991 Verbum shipped Verbum Interactive, the nascent industry’s first true multimedia product: a double CD-ROM featuring a pioneering interface design, stunning graphics, original music, animation and video. Sony, Macromedia, GTE and other firms participated in the development of Verbum Interactive, which inspired many of the early multimedia titles.

An Archive of content from the Verbum Journal era will be available in this area of the site soon.