BOOKBOOTERS.COM AND EBOOKS.COM JOIN FORCES IN E-PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP

WEATOGUE, CT March 1, 2001: New England-based digital publisher Bookbooters.com has announced a significant publishing partnership with leading Australian e-Bookstore eBooks.com. Under the terms of the agreement, a range of original popular fiction published by Bookbooters will be sold by eBooks.com for download to customers.

Announcing the partnership, Toby Emden, co-founder of Bookbooters.com, said: "The agreement with eBooks.com is highly consistent with our strategy of establishing partnerships with other major players in the digital publishing industry in order to maximize exposure for our products and our authors. This is probably one of the most exciting and important alliances we have established to date. eBooks.com are one of the key players in the world of digital publishing. They are every bit as committed to the quality of their products as we are, and we are proud to be associated with them."

ABOUT BOOKBOOTERS.COM

Launched in May 2000, Bookbooters.com, a privately-financed company based in Northern Connecticut, has quickly established itself as one of the web's leading publishers of original genre fiction in digital format. Through its website, www.bookbooters.com, customers are able to securely download a range of eBooks or order titles on CD-ROM. In October 2000, Bookbooters teamed up with leading On Demand publisher Digitz to launch a unique three-tier publishing program, crowned by a low-cost, high-quality Print On Demand option for published authors. All titles published by Bookbooters are screened by a highly professional team of editors, and only the top 15% of all submissions are accepted for publication.

Since its launch, Bookbooters has formed strategic partnerships with several companies, including CyberRead, Amazon.com, DigitalGoods.com, Atlantic Bridge, Aurora Productions, Digitz and Booksurge.com.

ABOUT EBOOKS.COM

Ebooks.com was established by Stephen Cole in 1997. He had the vision to establish the company and register the URL www.ebooks.com based on his belief that ebooks would become ubiquitous.

At the launch of eBooks.com in September 2000, the company had negotiated licensing agreements with 30 publishers, including Allen & Unwin, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Penguin Australia. Since the launch a further 20 deals have been concluded including Taylor & Francis, McGraw-Hill, Harper Colins and most recently born digital publisher Bookbooters.com.

Linda Gladwell, Producer at eBooks.com, said We are delighted to welcome Bookbooters to our growing list of international publisher partners. Their rigorous editorial processes and enthusiasm for their product have really established them at the forefront of the BornDigital publishing world."

CONTACTS:

Toby Emden
Managing Editor
Bookbooters.com

EMAIL: temden@bookbooters.com
URL: http://www.bookbooters.com

Linda Gladwell
Producer eBooks.com
eBooks Corporation Limited

EMAIL: linda.gladwell@ebooks.com
URL: http://www.ebooks.com