Audrey D. Melkin Named Director of Business Development at Atypon Systems, Inc.

Business Editors

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003

Most recently VP, Publisher Relations at Ingenta, Melkin is a publishing veteran with over 20 years in the industry. She has specialized in the sales and marketing of scholarly and technical materials to the academic and library community in positions at Wiley, OUP, and Holt. She serves on the Journals and Libraries Committees at the AAP, the SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee, and is a frequent speaker at the Charleston Conference, the AAP/PSP, the AAUP, the ALA, and the SSP.

"Building upon my experience in putting over forty publishers online at CatchWord and then Ingenta," Melkin stated, "I am eager to deliver Atypon's superior technology and stellar customer service to the wider publishing community. I am particularly excited by Atypon's commitment to putting publishers first by giving them the tools to manage and grow their revenue from their own online platform."

Ravi Singh, Vice President of Corporate Development, remarked, "We are delighted that Audrey has accepted our offer to direct business development at Atypon. As we expand the market of Atypon's full service electronic publishing platform to the larger publishing community, Audrey's strategic experience and knowledge will be a great asset."

About Atypon

Since 1996, Atypon Systems, Inc. has focused on providing software and services to the information industry.

Atypon offers a suite of software and services for the Information Industry. Atypon's electronic publishing software, Literatum manages content for eJournals, eReference Works, eBooks, and other digital media. This software powers major websites such as the Academic Press' IDEAL Library, Blackwell Synergy, and CrossRef. Other services include PDFplus, which dynamically adds links to PDFs and LINKplus, a full service linking solution for publishers.

In addition to software, Atypon provides publishers the option of a complete outsourced hosting solution in conjunction with 17 leading technology vendors including Akamai, IBM, Dell, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Atypon's customers range from non-profit organizations to the world's leading publishers. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and maintains a European support office. For more information on Atypon Systems, please visit http://www.atypon.com.