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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 2402014" data-attributes="member: 11064">Byron Preiss (1953-2005)Author, editor, and publisher Byron Preiss died on Saturday in an auto accident on Long Island, NY. He was the president and publisher of Byron Preiss Visual Publications and Ibooks.<a href="http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/pulse.cgi?http%3A//www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi%3Fubb%3Dget_topic%3Bf%3D36%3Bt%3D003970" target="_blank">http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/pulse.cgi?http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=003970</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/nyregion/11preiss.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1121106835-OZMPPQj+NiJh+neO+EyAtQ" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/nyregion/11preiss.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1121106835-OZMPPQj+NiJh+neO+EyAtQ</a><a href="http://sfwa.org/news/bpreiss.htm" target="_blank">http://sfwa.org/news/bpreiss.htm</a>This really saddens me. When I was attending New york University's Summer Publishing Institute, Byron was one of the guest speakers, and he was an inspiration for me to go into the science fiction field as opposed to just taking any job in publishing. He was a pioneer in new ways of marketing books, connecting traditional print mediums with multimedia publications, and seeing the crossover potential of books, tv, film, and comics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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