It seems we are at a crossroads here at Children's Software Press. Our biggest client, Smarterkids.com, who published our software reviews on their web site the last two years has been bought out and it appears that are going to bring in their own team to do software analysis. That leaves us a little bit up the creek. As advertising costs skyrocket we have not been able to add enough subscribers to our base to offset the costs of the newsletter. This lose of the income from doing reviews may spell the end of the Children's Software newsletter in its present form. We are looking at suspending at least paper publication of the newsletter at the end of this volume in the fall. In the meantime, we are going to publish the remaining issues in this new style to reduce costs and let us make an assessment of future options.

We hope you will bear with us during this transition period. In the meantime, we are making plans to add a substantial number of new titles to our brochure series of inexpensive, short, how-to booklets that have been so popular. The latest title in the series, Writing a Paperless Paper: A Student Guide to Electronic Study Skills by James Lengel of Boston University seems to have struck a chord with teachers and parents who often complain to us that their students/children know how to play computer games and echat, but don't have the slightest idea how the computer could really be a helpmate in the putting together of a project or research paper.

Once again we want to thank you for your loyal support, many of you who have been with us from the beginning of the newsletter in this reincarnation over nine years ago. It has been a long and interesting ride. Thanks for coming along!

Click Here to read sample reviews from our May/June 2001 Newsletter.