Automated Graphics to Offer RightsMarket Digital Publishing Solutions.

Business Editors

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2001

RightsMarket Inc. (OTCBB:RMKTF)(CDNX:RTS.) and Consolidated Graphic Inc (NYSE:CGX)

Automated Graphics, CGX Subsidiary, to Resell RightsPublish

Technology; RightsMarket Gains Access to Direct U.S. Sales Force

Washington, D.C., American Association of Publishers Conference - Automated Graphics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Consolidated Graphics Inc. (NYSE:CGX) and a North American leader in commercial printing services, and RightsMarket Inc. (CDNX:RTS.), a leader in digital publishing technology, today jointly announced a strategic reseller partnership.

Under this agreement, Automated Graphics will utilize their extensive client base in the publishing and printing industries to promote and sell RightsPublish, the end-to-end digital rights solution developed by RightsMarket. A RightsPublish training program for the Automated Graphics' sales force will supplement the co-marketing of these services.

"We are proud to welcome Automated Graphics as a strategic partner and value-added reseller," said Al Saurette, Chief Executive Officer, RightsMarket Inc. "This partnership is an excellent validation of our technology and the business opportunities that will be mutually available to Automated Graphics and RightsMarket. Our technology combined with Automated Graphics' expertise and long-standing relationships in the printing industry will allow us to leverage significant opportunities in the rapidly emerging digital publishing world."

"RightsMarket offers a complete digital publishing framework including digital rights management (DRM), e-commerce and content syndication without the need to perform costly website redevelopment and integration of components from multiple technology vendors. This means that publishers can offer both print-on-demand and secure digital delivery of their documents from a common source," said Charles White, President and Chief Operating Officer of Consolidated Graphics. "We continue to seek out leading edge solutions for all of our CGX customers and this partnership demonstrates our commitment to offering emerging digital publishing technologies."

Supporting industry standard viewers and players such as Adobe Acrobat, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer and Winamp, RightsPublish provides a friction-free interface for end users, enabling them to consume digital content quickly and conveniently. This creates a new commercial sales channel for publishers and content owners to securely distribute their intellectual property over the Internet using multiple formats.

About RightsMarket Inc.

RightsMarket Inc. (CDNX:RTS.) enables the digital economy with software and Web-based services. This fast growing company facilitates digital publishing and secure document distribution utilizing its core digital rights management technology. The company offers two product lines: RightsPublish, which offers a complete solution for e-publishing and content management for publishers, associations and content owners. RightsVault provides document security, control and auditing in enterprise-level applications. Both products automate the persistent protection, sale, management and control of digital content across multiple technology platforms, including PCs and handheld devices and multiple formats including text, audio and html. The company's technology partners include Adobe Solutions, Ansyr Technology and Entrust Technologies, and resellers include Automated Graphics, Secure Zen and Fifth Era Knowledge Inc. Digital publishing solutions have recently been implemented for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, OutsideGuide.com, ForeWord Magazine and the Petroleum Services Association of Canada. For more information, visit www.RightsMarket.com.

About Automated Graphics

Automated Graphics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:CGX), the largest sheet-fed and half-web commercial printing company in the United States. Through its network of locally managed printing companies in 25 states, the Company produces high-quality customized printed materials for a broad customer base that includes many of the most recognized companies in the country. Consolidated Graphics also offers an extensive and growing range of digital and Internet-based services and solutions marketed through CGXmedia. Consolidated Graphics is focused on adding value to its operating companies by providing financial and operational strengths, management support and technological advantages associated with a national organization. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.consolidatedgraphics.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from the results, performance or other expectations implied by these forward-looking statements. Consolidated Graphics' expectations regarding future sales and profitability assume, among other things, stability in the economy and reasonable growth in the demand for its products, the continued availability of raw materials at affordable prices, retention of its key management and operating personnel, as well as other factors detailed in Consolidated Graphics' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements, assumptions and factors stated or referred to in this press release are based on information available to Consolidated Graphics today. Consolidated Graphics expressly disclaims any duty to provide updates to these forward-looking statements, assumptions and other factors after the day of this release to reflect the occurrence of events or circumstances or changes in expectations.