TV Tome was a U.S. based website devoted to informational guides for English-language television shows and the people involved in their production. It was run mainly by volunteer editors, with the assistance of user contributions. The site was founded by John Nestoriak III, who gave the founders of epguides meta editor status at TV Tome, they were; George Fergus, Dennis Kytasaari and John Lavalie.
The site had over 2,500 complete television series guides, over 3,500 developing television series guides and filmographies for 250,000 actors and crewmembers moderated by a five member crew. TV Tome also appointed forum moderators on TV Tome who moderated four of six TV Tome General Forums and the television show forums. In addition to the television series guides, TV Tome had a rich forum for each television series with a wealth of information regarding episode interpretation and discussion.
A spin off site, Movie Tome, was established in August 2003. Originally, a video game tome and a music tome were planned as well, but with the purchase of TV Tome and Movie Tome, and seeing as how GameSpot and MP3.com equate to those sites, neither came into existence.
On April 22, 2005, TV Tome officially announced its absorption by CNET, much to the dissent of many members. CNET announced plans to relocate the site to its TV.com domain, which was acquired in 1996 for use in conjunction with the short-lived syndicated television series of the same name. A preliminary version of the new site launched on June 1, 2005 and on June 13, 2005, the site was permanently redirected to TV.com with an entirely new layout. CNET bought TV Tome for US $5 million in January 2005.
Famous quotes containing the word tome:
“She carries a book but it is not
the tome of the ancient wisdom,
the pages, I imagine, are the blank pages
of the unwritten volume of the new.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)