Crain Communications Teams with Edmunds

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 6 -- Crain Communications has teamed with Edmunds.com ( http://www.edmunds.com ), the Web's leading consumer resource for unbiased automotive information, to provide additional features to the readers of top automotive publications AutoWeek and Automotive News.

AutoWeek, America's only weekly automotive enthusiast magazine, is working with Edmunds.com to offer online readers a comprehensive buyers' guide at http://www.autoweek.com/ , complete with vehicle data and access to Edmunds.com True Market Value® pricing, the Town Hall automotive community and other popular research tools.

Automotive News, the industry-leading tabloid newsweekly covering the automotive industry, will use Edmunds.com's data as a source for its own coverage of incentive and rebate information.

Other applications of Edmunds.com data and content exchanges are under consideration.

``Edmunds.com provides tools and data that complement Crain's online offerings,'' said Andrew Smith, Global eBusiness Director for Crain Automotive Group. ``Our partnership is consistent with a powerful trend in the media -- USA Today and BusinessWeek are now sharing content, as are The New York Times and Financial Times, and TheStreet.com and CBS MarketWatch respectively.''