AVN Announces Acquisition

The Adult Internet Industry has experienced explosive growth and continues to be regarded as having great potential. AVN magazine is very pleased and proud to announce the production of a monthly trade magazine that will establish us as a permanent presence within the Adult Internet Industry.

IA2000 was recently acquired by AVN Publications Inc., publishers of AVN magazine, the authoritative trade journal for the adult industry. This new ownership brings together a great many resources to our native magazine. First and foremost is a change of name. The journal you've known as IA2000 will resurface in May as AVN Online, boasting a graphic re-design and plumped-up editorial content (nearly twice its former size) to bring you the most current news, gossip, event coverage, feature articles, and legal updates from around the world.

With so many entrepreneurs venturing into this fast-growing business sector, the time is ripe to aggressively develop AVN Online's distribution by getting the magazine to newsstands nationwide and targeting three major groups of readers. The first group is comprised of business owners, managers and employees from service and content providers, manufacturers and customer service companies. The second group targeted is Webmasters. The third group is made up of consumers. The demographic breakdown of this consumer base is predominately men and women in their late 20's to early 30's. They will own at least one personal computer and spend a minimum of three hours per week online. And all will have purchased an adult service at least once within the last four months.

In order to achieve the goal of expanded circulation, it is in our best interest to set some strict content and editorial guidelines that prohibit explicit material. By not publishing nude photos, we hope to avoid any potential problems that could possibly have an adverse effect upon circulation.

We are very excited and are dedicated to making this undertaking a success for our advertisers and supporters as well as for us.