SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2006--E-Book Systems, the leader in Digital Flip® e-publishing technology, announces that Cornell Information Technologies is issuing the Business Plan and Annual Report using its Web-based 3-D page-flipping format.

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Cornell is the first Ivy League university to use E-Book Systems' Digital Flip® solutions. To position itself as a national leader in collegiate digital publishing, the university's IT department is offering their Business Plan and Annual Report in E-Book Systems' format.

With E-Book Systems' Digital Flip® solutions, readers can go to www.cit.cornell.edu/oit/Reports and automatically download FlipViewer® or Mac FlipViewer® to read the digital edition of the Business Plan and Annual Report. In a matter of moments, readers can view the entire report just as it would appear in print -- with real "flipping" pages.

"As stewards of university resources, it's important we consider both the cost and the effectiveness of printed publications. E-Book Systems' technology is a great digital alternative to the way we were communicating," said Bob Bourdeau, assistant director of marketing for Cornell Information Technologies. "It has the natural look and feel we were looking for and is customized exactly to our needs. And with the FlipAnalyzer page tracking system, we get a clear answer to who is looking where and for how long."

E-Book Systems' Digital Flip® solutions turn printed publications into a digital, multimedia-enhanced 3-D page-flipping format for both online and offline distributions. The company can convert any PDF, Quark, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Word and HTML files into its patented online page-flipping format. The publications can remain online after they are downloaded, which allows readers to click on page links and advertisements. The Digital Flip® technology can incorporate a variety of multimedia elements, like MID, WAV and MP3 files, to enhance the publication. E-Book Systems' Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution safeguards content providers' intellectual properties.

The university will also use E-Book Systems' FlipAnalyzer®, which tracks the usage of the document in terms of page views, click throughs and time spent on pages. FlipAnalyzer® generates reports to help manage the effectiveness of the digital content distribution strategy as well as any on-page advertisements.

"Cornell Information Technologies is leading the way for digital publishing in the education community," said Seng-Beng Ho, president of E-Book Systems. "This cost-cutting, easy distribution format makes sense for a department with the goal of leading its university to become one of the most technologically advanced institutions in the country."

Cornell University joins a growing roster of E-Book Systems' customers, including select Reed Business Information and Cygnus Business Media publications. For more information, contact E-Book Systems by phone at (408) 625-8000, via email at sales@ebooksys.com or online at http://www.flipviewer.com/.

About E-Book Systems

E-Book Systems (www.flipviewer.com) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of consumer products, computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems' products make use of its patented Digital Flip® technology to deliver multimedia content such as digital photographs, animations, text, audio and music via a 3-D Page-Flipping interface, which appears as a virtual book. These contents could be streamed or delivered online and offline through E-Book Systems' OpenFlip(TM) format. E-Book Systems also offers Digital Rights Management, FlipBook tracking ASP services and Flip Enterprise solutions for publishers and corporations. E-Book Systems, a private corporation, has offices in Santa Clara, Calif., Beijing, China and Singapore. Investors include Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ:CREAF - News) and SOFTBANK Media & Marketing Corporation, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Corp (TSE:9984 - News). E-Book Systems' products are distributed worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific Region. For more information, contact Lauren Kinzler of Dittoe PR at (317) 202-2280 or call E-Book Systems at (408) 625-8000, e-mail at info@ebooksys.com.

About Cornell University

Cornell University (http://www.cornell.edu/) was founded in Ithaca, N.Y. in 1865. It is home to the nation's first colleges devoted to hotel administration, industrial and labor relations and veterinary medicine. As the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League, Cornell's Ithaca campus contains nearly 20,000 students representing every state and 120 countries. For more information, visit www.cornell.edu.

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