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Press Release Source: E-Book Systems

New Zealand Company Becomes E-Book Systems' Latest Flip-Enabled Partner
Monday June 23, 9:09 am ET
Open2Sell WorldWide Limited Incorporates E-Book's FlipViewer Technology

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2003--FlipViewer® by E-Book Systems -- the leader in digital flip technology -- has been incorporated by Virtual Technology Networks Ltd. into the Open2Sell WorldWide Limited web site, making the New Zealand company E-Book's latest flip-enabled partner.

Open2Sell WorldWide Limited is a real estate web site (http://www.open2sell.com/ and http://www.open2sell.co.nz/) which invites realtors and real estate agencies as well as private individuals to link their property listings to the site, where they can manage their own individual accounts, including adding, modifying and deleting their own property listings. After the completion of the Real Estate Section of the site, a full integration was conducted to the WorldWide Accommodation section of the site, which holds Hotels, Motels, B&B's as well as Apartments. Enabling reservations and bookings directly from the E-Book has dramatically enhanced the Accommodation's exposure and is already generating an increase of room reservations to the accommodations listed.

Herman Smeets, General Manager of Virtual Technology Networks Ltd. and owner of Open2Sell WorldWide Limited, discovered the E-Book technology some time ago and completely rewrote the program script modules to allow for the flawless integration of this new technology within his existing website. He states: "People are always looking for something new. I knew my site needed something to differentiate it from other sites, and I knew immediately that the FlipBook technology was the answer. When I investigated the E-Book Technology I knew that I was onto something big. The marketing possibilities are enormous. Every book can be attached to any email and on top of that every book can be emailed directly from the book itself. This would create a snowball effect because friends forward the books to friends. The terminology 'Automated Marketing' became reality. Already over 12,000 people viewed our main site E-Book."

Based on a book concept, FlipViewer® is not like any conventional web browsers in that pages are downloaded and organized into a book form. Individual pages are displayed like those in a real book. While you are reading the current page, the new few pages will be streamed into your PC. FlipBooks can also contain full-page advertisements along with the regular banner ads.

Open2Sell WorldWide's system is now nearing its completion and includes:

  • "On the fly" dynamic creation of all property and accommodation portfolios
  • Every first page in each portfolio is fully dynamic and enables direct emailing of the book to any email address, which dramatically increases the marketing value of each portfolio since it can be forwarded to every address in the address book.
  • Dynamic creation of the main site portfolio;
  • Dynamic creation of the "site info" helpdesk portfolio;
  • Dynamic creation of every listing portfolio;
  • Dynamic creation of every consultant-marketing portfolio.

Part of the data collected is viewable on the website and displays

  • The amount a particular portfolio is viewed;
  • The amount a particular portfolio is emailed;

Already the Open2Sell website has received over 240,000 visitors from all over the world. More information about FlipViewer can be found at http://www.flipviewer.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® technology to deliver multimedia content via a 3D Page-Flipping interface. E-Book Systems has offices in Santa Clara, CA, and Singapore. Investors include NASDAQ listed Creative Technology Ltd. FlipAlbum®, FlipViewer®, and Digital Flip® logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of E-Book Systems, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

About Open2Sell WorldWide Limited

Located in Auckland, New Zealand, Open2Sell WorldWide Limited utilizes existing Real Estate Sales People, their agencies as well as private individuals which are all linked to their own individual account and can add, modify and delete their own property listings. All the property portfolios (E-Books) are always "up to date" and gives every account holder an extreme marketing tool to advertise their real estate to a worldwide audience.


Contact:
     Dittoe Public Relations
     Mendy Hill, 317/202-2280, Ext. 13
     mendy@dittoepr.com



Source: E-Book Systems

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