Moleskine Introductions: 2009 Planners, City Notebooks & Blogs, Journals and Special Editions

    NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /EMWNews/ -- Moleskine, the Italian-based (Milan)

publisher of the legendary little black notebook, is pleased to announce

new products to hit the stores this fall.



    2009 Diaries & Planners: Each year Moleskine enriches the line with new

styles. Variety of available products will allow anyone to find a book

suited exactly to his or her needs -- even the most hectic of schedules can

find balance with the right brain, left brain approach to daily planning.

In stores now.



    City Notebooks: The Moleskine City Book -- the first guidebook you

write yourself -- is ideal for those who travel -- whether to see the

sights or for work, as a way of organizing your trip and to preserve it for

your memory and your records. Perfect for those who live there, as a way of

organizing the things they know and need about the city they live in. This

September, Moleskine is expanding -- adding to the 29+ cities worldwide --

to the following new areas:



    -- September -- Miami, Philadelphia, Toronto + Vancouver



    -- November -- Tokyo + Kyoto



    -- Spring 2009 -- Atlanta, Las Vegas, Moscow, Hamburg, Basel, Valencia,

Dubai + Bangkok



    To accompany City Notebooks, Moleskine has developed City Blogs

dedicated for each city covered in the City Notebook line. The blogs

feature cultural and travel updates, traveler information and experiences,

as well as links to blogs written by Moleskine enthusiasts. For more

information on Moleskine City Blogs, please visit http://www.moleskinecity.com.



    Volant Notebooks: The colorful Volant series is offered as a set of 3

basic notebooks, each with a soft cover with high quality acid-free pages.

The last 16 sheets are detachable, perfect for exchanging loose notes. The

Moleskine Volant notebooks are handy, fashionable and light. In stores late

September.



    Limited Edition Patent Leather Daily Diary: Moleskine introduces the

Pocket 2009 Daily Diary in patent leather. The shiny surface, in red or

black, recalls the luxurious lacquers of the East. Available in hardcover

in limited edition patent leather. Limited distribution will include

Takashimaya in New York and select Barnes & Noble locations. In stores late

September.

    About Moleskine(R)



    Moleskine(R) is the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries

by great artists and thinkers, including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso,

Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin. Their trusty, pocket-sized travel

companions held sketches, notes, stories, and ideas before they became

famous images or beloved books. The little black notebook with rounded

corners, an elastic closure, and an expandable inner pocket was originally

a nameless object. It was produced by a small French bookbinder that

supplied Parisian stationery shops frequented by the international literary

and artistic avant-garde for more than a century until they ceased

production in the mid 1980's.



    In 1998, a small Milanese publisher, Modo e Modo, brought the legendary

notebook back to life under the name "Moleskine", restoring a dense

tradition, renewing the notebook format, and identifying the fact that

mobile technologies work best when accompanied by essential analog tools.

Learn more at: http://www.moleskine.com