NEW YORK, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- PC Expo -- Electronic book publisher
Alexandria Digital Literature, Inc. (AlexLit) announced "It's Showtime for
author Bruce Holland Rogers." Showtime Networks Original Pictures premieres
the television adaptation of Rogers' story, "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea"
June 29, at 8 p.m. Renamed "The Other Side," it's part of Showtime's trilogy
"On The Edge."
AlexLit, a growing, privately held company, is the exclusive eBook
publisher for Rogers' award-winning story. The Company has partnered with
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (Amex: FEP), in a major promotion for the
newly launched and versatile Franklin eBookMan reader. This promotion is the
first phase of a broader relationship between Franklin and AlexLit.
The two companies recently entered into an agreement under which AlexLit
will use Franklin's Content Developers' Kit for eBookMan to convert their full
library of over 700 eBooks into Franklin's tagged format for reading on
eBookMan. The titles will be available for sale and download from
http://www.franklin.com this summer.
"While we signed our agreement with AlexLit some time ago, we've been
waiting for the upcoming Showtime event to rally the news around," said Barry
Lipsky, president and CEO, Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. "We are
extremely excited that the kickoff to our alliance with AlexLit will bring our
eBookMan readers content from an award-winning author."
Franklin will provide free downloads of "Lifeboat" to eBookMan users at PC
Expo in New York, June 26 to 28. eBookMan users can download the title for
free from Franklin's website through July 1. This promotion coincides with
Showtime's premiere of "The Other Side." Other works by Rogers are available
for purchase from Franklin and AlexLit websites.
The prolific Rogers received a Nebula Award in 1997 for "Lifeboat." His
outstanding works are some of the award winners found in AlexLit's catalog.
AlexLit was the official e-publisher of the 2000 Science Fiction Achievement
Award for short fiction nominees.
"We're very excited for Bruce Holland Rogers and the Showtime movie," said
AlexLit CEO, Dave Howell. "It underscores the value of eBooks. Although
Bruce's work is consistently high quality, many of his titles aren't in print.
Showtime's adaptation introduces a new audience to his many stories, and they
are only available at AlexLit.com and affiliated websites."
About eBookMan
eBookMan(R) is a multimedia content player offering mass-market audiences
a robust feature set and an optimal display screen at an affordable price.
All three eBookMan(R) models have a large 240 x 200 pixel LCD that displays
87 percent more information than a typical handheld. Each model gives
consumers a vehicle to download thousands of electronic books, audio books and
musical works, to synchronize between users' personal information manager
programs and Microsoft(R) Outlook(R), to record and play voice memos and to
write notes easily with natural handwriting recognition. Franklin's open but
secure architecture also enables publishers and developers to offer more
titles in a protected environment.
The entry model, EBM-900, with a suggested retail price of $129.95,
includes a microphone, speaker, headphone jack, multimedia memory card for
memory expansion, a USB port and 8 MB of built-in memory. The EBM-901, with a
suggested retail price of $179.95, adds a backlit, polarized display and
additional free books. The flagship model, the EBM-911, suggested to retail
for $229.95, offers 16MB of memory and even more free content.
eBookMan won the eBook Technology Award from the International eBook Award
Foundation at the Frankford Book Fair in October 2000.
About Franklin
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (Amex: FEP), the worldwide market
leader in handheld electronic books, is the designer and distributor of the
award winning multimedia eBookMan(R) platform. The Company is the exclusive
producer and distributor of the ROLODEX(R) Electronics brand of personal
information management products. Franklin has sold more than
25,000,000 electronic books and currently publishes more than 200 titles,
including dictionaries and bilingual dictionaries; encyclopedias; Bibles;
entertainment titles; education and tutorial publications; and medical
reference works. Franklin products, available in sixteen languages, are sold
in 45,000 retail outlets worldwide, through catalogs and on line at
franklin.com . The Company has sales and distribution subsidiaries in the
United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Benelux countries, Canada, Australia and
Mexico, and production management offices in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
ROLODEX(R) is a registered trademark of Berol Corporation, a subsidiary of
Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.
About Alexandria Digital Literature, Inc. (AlexLit) http://www.AlexLit.com
Alexandria Digital Literature, Inc. is the fiction-publishing arm of
Seattle Book Company. The parent Company is a Seattle-based provider of
infrastructure for the publishing industry, booksellers and corporations. The
Company builds, deploys and manages electronic bookstores for business
customers as an Application Service Provider (ASP). It also publishes
downloadable electronic book software (eBooks) for distribution and sales to
leading and customized eBookstores. Intellectual property includes exclusive,
open-system technology and e-publishing rights. It has two eBookstores,
http://www.AlexLit.com and http://www.Tale.com .
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed throughout this release, including, but not limited to, those that
are stated as Franklin's belief or expectation or preceded by the word
"should" are forward looking statements that involve risks to and
uncertainties in Franklin's business, including, among other things, the
timely availability and acceptance of new electronic books and organizers,
changes in technology, the impact of competitive electronic products, the
management of inventories, Franklin's dependence on third party component
suppliers and manufacturers, including those that provide Franklin-specific
parts, and other risks and uncertainties that may be detailed from time to
time in Franklin's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.AlexLit.com
http://www.franklin.com
CONTACT:
Chris Strano, Director of Marketing of
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., 609-386-2500; or Elsie A.
Olesen, Chief Operating Officer of Alexandria Digital Literature,
425-814-2214
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