E-Book Systems Introduces "FlipBrowser Gold," to Create and Share On-line Flip-Books

E-Book Systems Introduces "FlipBrowser Gold," to Create and Share On-line Flip-Books
The Revolutionary Program Makes Sharing of On-line Flip-Books Easy

SANTA CLARA, CA-(November 29th, 2000) With a mission to bring leading-edge technology to the masses, E-Book Systems announces FlipBrowser™ Gold, the first mass market, easy-to-use, on-line e-book sharing tool. FlipBrowser™ Gold users can easily compile e-books on their computers, choose their upload websites and then have FlipBrowser™ Gold automatically "publish" the e-books for public viewing. FlipBrowser™ Gold can even inform your friends via email, of these "published" e-books.

For the first time, Internet users can view their favorite web pages in a book-like format, with real 3D turning pages. Users can also read novels, magazines, view photo albums, browse catalogs, all in a turning-page, electronic book form. E-Book Systems calls such on-line e-books, "FlipBooks™".

As an Internet browser, FlipBrowser™ Gold is a browser like no other. It automatically organizes all of the webpages that you have viewed into a book-like form with separate pages that can be navigated through as you would any book. This allows users the ease of flipping to previously visited pages with a simple turn of a page. You can even add bookmarks, which appear at the side of the pages of the e-book.

As an e-book or FlipBook™ viewer, FlipBrowser™ Gold can view anything that has a book-like form-such as photo albums, product catalogs, manuals, magazines and novels. You can use FlipBrowser™ Gold to read a novel, browse a product catalog or view a friend's photo album stored at a remote website. Any of these books will now be viewable electronically as if looking at a traditional "book" with a cover page, flipping pages and bookmarks.

As an on-line sharing tool, FlipBrowser™ Gold can open a folder of html and image files and automatically compile the files into a FlipBook™ with a thumbnail overview and table of contents. You can manually re-order the pages by drag and drop, upload the complete FlipBook™ to the web for sharing and even get FlipBrowser™ Gold to email your friends to inform them of the location of the on-line FlipBook™. You can also choose to have your FlipBook™ listed on www.fliplibrary.com for search and retrieval by the general public.

Companies can also use FlipBrowser™ Gold to put their company handbooks, manual on their intranet for easy access by their employees. This is especially attractive to companies who have non-technical staff accessing on-line documents.

"We know that more and more people want to share their photo albums, recipe books, newsletters, and other information, on the Internet but do not have the proper tool to easily do it. We have simplified the entire process by introducing our Digital Flip™ technology for easy navigation of Internet contents. Digital Flip™ technology also allows for full-page advertisements to be inserted into on-line publications, which is not possible with today's method of web browsing," said Mike McGaughy, VP of Business Development at E-Book Systems.

It is only with E-Book Systems' patented Digital Flip™ technology that electronic books and albums behave like real-life books with which we are all so familiar. And because it features a streaming format, users can view the first few pages of an electronic book or product catalog before the entire e-book is completely downloaded.

FlipBrowser™ Gold is also multimedia-enabled for audio and video. It supports page printing and is compatible with all IE 5.01 plug-ins. It requires a Pentium PC 166Mhz or higher, Internet Explorer 5.01 or above, 32 MB RAM, 9 MB hard disk space and Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT 4.0.

FlipBrowser™ Gold has a suggested retail price of $19.95 and is available immediately at www.flipbrowser.com. FlipBooks™ uploaded by FlipBrowser™ Gold can be viewed by the FlipBrowser™ viewer, which is available free at www.flipbrowser.com.

PRESS CONTACT: Liza Dittoe, Dittoe Public Relations: (317) 202-2280: liza@dittoepr.com

E-BOOK SYSTEMS' CONTACT INFO:
phone: (408) 919-6675; fax: (408) 919-6677, email: info@ebooksys.com. technical support: support@ebooksys.com.

About E-Book Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1998, privately-held E-Book Systems' mission is to provide you with a superior interface in managing digital information. E-Book Systems has offices in Santa Clara, CA, Boston, MA and Singapore. Investors include NASDAQ listed Creative Technology Ltd.

FlipBrowser, FlipAlbum, FlipLibrary and Digital Flip are trademarks of E-Book Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.