Blackwell's to Distribute ebrary Products to Foreign and Domestic Library Markets.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary(R), (www.ebrary.com), a leading information services and technology provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Blackwell's Book Services (www.blackwell.com) that will make ebrary products more accessible to domestic and foreign library markets. In addition to an existing partnership that provides previews of ebook titles via its Collection Manager system, Blackwell's will now resell ebrary's Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)(TM) to libraries in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. ebrary's DCP combines a growing selection of more than 60,000 full-text books and other authoritative content from leading publishers with patent-pending software for efficient online viewing and researching.

"ebrary's breadth of high-value content from leading publishers combined with its simultaneous, multi-user access model and unique research capabilities is an ideal fit for libraries in both international and domestic markets. We believe this partnership will help our customers meet the increasing digital requirements of students and faculty," said Martha Whittaker, VP of Sales and Marketing, Blackwell's Book Services.

"Blackwell's is a proven leader in the library market, servicing more than 15,000 academic, special, and public library customers throughout the world," said David Bass, ebrary's Senior VP of Sales & Marketing. "They are also a pioneer in combining technology with traditional bookselling expertise. We are extremely delighted to work with such an innovative company with a track record of success in the domestic and international library markets."

Additional ebrary News

In separate press releases issued today, ebrary announced 1) a new enterprise, server-based technology that enables virtual library portal and shared remote collections, 2) the availability of Custom Collections and a new perpetual access model, 3) a partnership with BookSurge to bring print-on-demand capabilities to libraries worldwide, and 4) significant achievements in 2004 including a more than 63% increase in its customer base and a 60% increase in content. Read the press releases at www.ebrary.com.

About Blackwell's

Blackwell's Book Services (BBS) provides a full range of traditional library bookselling services integrated with the latest in library technology and technical services. The company specializes in the supply of books and value-added bibliographic products and services to over 15,000 academic, research and special libraries in over 120 countries around the world. Blackwell's Book Services firm order service covers virtually the entire publication output of close to 50,000 scholarly, professional, and trade presses.

Blackwell's Book Services headquarters are located in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with offices in Oxford, England, Sydney, Australia and Blackwood, New Jersey.

About ebrary

ebrary(R) provides technology solutions and information services that students, employees, patrons, and staff need to be more productive, competitive and knowledgeable.

The company has pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)(TM), a hosted information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 60,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. ebrary's DCP provides simultaneous, multi-user access to customizable databases of full-text books, reports, maps, and other authoritative content in multiple subject areas.

ebrary offers server-based, enterprise software solutions, to easily and cost-effectively create remote collections and virtual content portals, from any PDF documents stored within a hard drive, database, or content management system.

All of ebrary's products feature the ebrary Reader(TM), which optimizes online viewing through the "real-time" conversion of PDF documents into ebrary's Exchange Data Format(TM) (EDF). EDF renders any PDF file, regardless of size, through any connected Internet browser, one page at a time, making the delivery fast and efficient for the viewer. InfoTools(TM) is an advanced set of software features within the ebrary Reader that provides much more powerful and efficient research capabilities than editorial-based linking or multiple search queries. By selecting words within a current document, end users can instantly link to relevant information from other EDF or PDF documents, digital databases, and resources on the web.

Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.