Ames On-Demand and Tichenor Publishing -- TIS -- Enter Custom Publishing Agreement.

Business Editors

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003

Ames On-Demand(R), a leading provider of content management and digital custom printing solutions, has entered into an agreement to provide custom publishing technology and short-run digital book manufacturing services for Tichenor Publishing (TIS), a division of the TIS Group. Upon executing the contract, Ames On-Demand began development of a fully functioning TIS BookBuild(TM) Web site, which includes a secure digital library and online ordering system for the academic customers of TIS.

Also under this agreement, Ames On-Demand will provide TIS academic customers with:

-- Custom publishing Web services for producing coursepacks and

other educational and training materials for faculty members

and students in TIS customers' classrooms and online courses;

-- Delivery of coursepacks and other course materials in various

forms, including as digitally printed books, or e-books, and

directly to students and other course participants;

-- Links from TIS Web pages to Ames On-Demand's TIS BookBuild

system through which TIS production staff and its registered

faculty customers may directly create and order coursepacks

and other supplementary course materials.

-- Short-run digital book manufacturing services including

one-color and four-color digital printing, various binding

options, and kitting and fulfillment.

"Ames On-Demand's BookBuild Web services are at work 'behind the scenes' when TIS production staff or professors build custom coursepacks on TIS' site," said Michael Shea, senior vice president for Ames On-Demand. "TIS provides the rights to the course materials, while Ames On-Demand provides the production technology and short-run book manufacturing services to deliver any combination of those materials in the order that the instructor wants."

"By partnering with Ames On-Demand, Tichenor Publishing is able to fulfill a need in the higher education marketplace for custom published materials," said Raymond Tichenor, president of T.I.S., Inc.

About Tichenor Publishing, Inc.

Tichenor Publishing (TIS), a division of T.I.S. Group, is a leading provider of high-quality instructional materials and laboratory manuals for colleges and universities nationwide. Tichenor Publishing content is available electronically and in print through college bookstores throughout the United States 

About Ames On-Demand

Ames On-Demand (www.amesondemand.com) provides Web-based content management, digital print, and electronic delivery solutions for publishers and organizations nationwide. Through these services, Ames On-Demand helps publishers meet the rising need for offering content in a variety of recombined forms and formats. In 1996, Ames On-Demand developed its first BookBuild custom publishing system linked to high-speed digital printers--and has remained at the forefront of the industry ever since. Ames On-Demand is a division of Ames Safety Envelope Company(R), a privately held company founded in 1919 and headquartered in Somerville, MA.