Barry D. Romeril, Vice-Chairman and CFO of Xerox Corporation Joins booktech.com Board of Directors.

Business Editors

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2000

booktech.com, Inc. (AMEX: BTC) an emerging E-education and knowledge management provider announced today that Barry D. Romeril, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of the Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX), has been elected to its Board of Directors, effective immediately, expanding the Board to five members.

"We are pleased to have attracted to our Board an international executive of Barry's stature, and one whose experience is so relevant to our business," said Dr. Morris Shepard, booktech.com's founder and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Shepard added: "The establishment of our company over four and a half years ago was inspired in part by the availability of new Xerox products that facilitated the creation, in both short runs and multi-channel delivery, of customized, digitized documents. Also, as a former teacher, Barry shares our commitment to improving education, and contributes an in-depth understanding of the technology and business trends that will shape our success."

Mr. Romeril, 56, joined Xerox as Chief Financial Officer in 1993 from British Telecommunications plc, where he had served as Group Finance Director since 1988. Named Vice Chairman and to the Xerox's Board of Directors in April 1999, he also served with BTR and Imperial Chemical Industries in London and in other postings. Mr. Romeril serves on the Board of Directors of Billiton plc. An honors graduate of Oxford University, he is a Certified Public Accountant, and a member of several professional organizations.

ABOUT booktech.com

booktech.com (www.booktech.com), headquartered in Woburn, MA, is a 4 1/2 year old, digital and on-demand publisher of custom textbooks and coursepacks. It is emerging as a first mover in the emerging E-Education and knowledge management market. The Company has built a customer base of over 2,500 professors and students in some 500 American colleges and universities nationwide, ranging from Harvard University to the University of Alaska. In addition to colleges and universities, booktech.com has become an important custom publishing resource in the K-12 market with such noteworthy titles as: Breaking the Spanish Barrier, Breaking the French Barrier, Trade Routes, and Choices.

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