BW0538 OCT 01,2001 6:06 PACIFIC 09:06 EASTERN
( BW)(CA-E-BOOK-SYSTEMS) E-Book Systems Becomes One of the Industry's Most Talked About Companies
Business Editors & High Tech Writers
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001--
E-Book Systems, the leader in 3D Digital Flip(TM) technology, proudly announces it's best year to-date! The FlipAlbum(R) line of products has created quite a stir in the industry. It seems everyone is talking about FlipAlbum(R) and how it remains the first and only product to offer the 3D page flipping interface to organize and share digital photos in a virtual software album concept.
Acclamations are coming from both customers and the media alike. Mick Brown, a long time FlipAlbum(R) user writes, "My digital camera is a waste of time without FlipAlbum(R)!"
With such compliments, E-Book Systems is pleased to report that they have surpassed 500,000 FlipAlbum(R) softwares sold and have had over 1 million downloads of the 30-day trial version of FlipAlbum(R) with 23 million hits on their web pages every month. FlipAlbum(R) softwares are sold in major computer retailers such as Frys Electronics, CompUSA, MicroCenter, Staples, J&R stores and can also be bought or downloaded directly on http://www.flipalbum.com/.
The news media world is equally pleased.
"E-Book Systems' products are those rare pieces of software that not only do what they claim to do, but add up to a whole lot more," stated Brian Nadel, Editor-in-Chief of Mobile Computing.
"The realistic aspect of this product is stunning..." said Yael Li-Ron, Editor, Contra Costa Times, CA.
Some of E-Book System's recent acclamations include winning the BEST OF SHOW Award at this year's Internet World Spring. Their Digital Flip(TM) Technology took home the prestigious award in the Client Software category.
At CNET, FlipAlbum(R) 30-day Trial software is the most "Talked About" software in the entire Multimedia category with 92% of CNET users giving FlipAlbum(R) the thumbs-up and recommend it to others. Additional FlipAlbum(R) awards include: a 5 cow rating by TUCOWS, a 5 star rating by ZDNet, and the FlipAlbum(R) CD Maker was chosen as Editor's Choice by American Photo magazine.
E-Book is optimizing its Digital Flip(TM) products for Intel's Pentium(R) 4 processors and has signed up with Intel's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. In doing so, all E-Book Systems' products will be upgraded to feature the world's first ever multiple page-flipping interface. "This will enhance the browsing and searching aspects of our products," says Eugene Tan, Vice-President of Marketing.
Additionally, E-Book Systems is announcing a product name change to the award-winning FlipBrowser(R) and FlipBrowser(R) Gold, to FlipViewer(R) and FlipViewer(R)Plus respectively. The name changes have been implemented to help better describe the use of the FREE FlipBrowser(R) software to view any created on-line flipbooks. FlipBooks can be photo albums, eNovels, eMagazines, and/or eCatalogs, etc. The web home page of FlipBrowser(R) will also change from http://www.flipbrowser.com/ to http://www.flipviewer.com/.
For more information, contact E-Book Systems' by phone at (408) 919-6675, via e-mail at sales@ebooksys.com, or at http://www.flipalbum.com/.
About E-Book Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1998, privately held E-Book Systems' 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' products make use of its proprietary and patented Digital Flip(TM) technology to deliver multimedia content via a 3D Page-Flipping interface. E-Book Systems has offices in Santa Clara, CA, Boston, MA and Singapore. Investors include NASDAQ listed Creative Technology Ltd. FlipAlbum(R), FlipViewer(R), FlipBrowser(R) and Digital Flip(TM) logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of E-Book Systems, Inc.
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KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA MASSACHUSETTS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: PUBLISHING COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS SOFTWARE
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SOURCE: E-Book Systems
