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( BW)(CA-E-BOOK-SYSTEMS) E-Book Systems Introduces CD Shopping Cart Plug-In for FlipAlbum 5 Professional; Sales of Popular FlipAlbum Line Surpass The 1 Million Mark
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
PMA 2003
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003--
Users Can Now Have a Professional System to Present Their Products and
Take Customer Orders
PMA: BOOTH # L 89--E-Book Systems(TM), the leader in 3D Digital Flip(R) technology, announces a new CD Shopping Cart plug-in for its FlipAlbum(R) 5 Professional Edition. Professional and business users can now provide their customers a simple, more organized way to place orders!
FlipAlbum(R) Professional is for any businesses with products or services which can be displayed in a flipping product catalog format. Some current users include professional photographers, artists and various other small businesses. And now with CD Shopping Cart, your customer can prepare orders by flipping through a CD product catalog, selecting a quantity and clicking on an "Add to Cart" icon. Once the customer has completed an order selection, the order form is automatically generated and he simply faxes or emails his order form to you for processing.
Priced at just $149.95, the new CD Shopping Cart plug-in is a smart way to expand the functionality of FlipAlbum(R) 5 Professional, making for a total business solution.
"We're excited about what this new product will do for our Professional customers. CD Shopping Cart will enhance the functionality of FlipAlbum(R) Professional by taking it to the next step: allowing your customers to place orders for your products," said Eugene Tan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at E-Book Systems(TM), Inc.
This new product comes on the heels of a very successful year. Sales of the award-winning FlipAlbum(R) series of products have crossed the one million mark. The FlipAlbum(R) line remains the first and only products to offer the 3D page flipping interface to organize and share digital photos in a virtual software album concept.
While other products present their "photo albums" as thumbnails of images organized in folders, FlipAlbum(R) creates realistic photo albums with elaborate themes, full-page layouts and the ability to personalize and share photos with friends and family online, via CDs or DVD players.
As even more evidence of the popularity of FlipAlbum(R), there have been over 2 million downloads of the 30-day trial version of FlipAlbum(R) with 5 million unique visitors to the web sites every month.
E-Book Systems(TM) continues to improve and make additions to their product line. This past January, E-Book Systems(TM) ventured into the Apple Mac World by announcing the Mac FlipAlbum(R) 3 at Mac World. Priced at $39.95, Mac FlipAlbum(R) 3 will be available in retail stores by mid March 2003. You can download a 60-day trial version at www.flipalbum.com/macfa.
FlipAlbum(R) products are sold in major computer retailers such as Best Buy, Frys Electronics, CompUSA, MicroCenter, J&R stores and can also be bought or downloaded directly on http://www.flipalbum.com/. FlipAlbum(R) products are also available in English, Japanese, Korean, German, French and Italian. A Dutch version will be released later this quarter.
For more information, contact E-Book Systems(TM)' by phone at (408) 625-8000, via e-mail at sales@ebooksys.com, or at http://www.flipalbum.com/.
About E-Book Systems(TM), Inc.
Founded in 1998, privately held E-Book Systems(TM), mission is to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems(TM) products make use of its proprietary and patented Digital Flip(R) technology to deliver multimedia content via a 3D Page-Flipping interface. E-Book Systems(TM) has offices in Santa Clara, CA, and Singapore. Investors include NASDAQ listed Creative Technology Ltd. FlipAlbum(R), FlipViewer(R), and Digital Flip(R) logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of E-Book Systems, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
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CONTACT: Dittoe Public Relations
Mendy Hill, 317/202-2280 x13
mendy@dittoepr.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE HARDWARE COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS RETAIL
PUBLISHING PRODUCT TRADESHOW
SOURCE: E-Book Systems(TM), Inc.
