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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--ebrary(R), a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that Informa Healthcare, a division of
Informa PLC, has licensed its platform to sell and market Informa's
growing selection of e-books online. With a portfolio that includes
more than 250 new pharmaceutical science and clinical medicine books
and other authoritative materials published each year, Informa
Healthcare is a leading publisher in the life sciences and medical
markets.

   "With ebrary's technology, we expect to significantly grow our
e-book business while increasing usage and customer satisfaction,"
said Sarah Walkley, Publisher, Informa Healthcare. "Not only does
ebrary's platform make it easy to submit e-books in industry standard
PDF, it also offers flexible options for selling individual e-books
and packages of e-books under both single- and multi-user access
models. At the same time, ebrary's sophisticated Reader and InfoTools
software make the research process easier and more productive for the
end-user."

   "Informa Healthcare is one of the most dynamic publishing groups
for the medical and life science communities and is continually
seeking innovative ways to serve the needs of its customers," said
Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. "We are very excited to be working
with Informa Healthcare to provide their customers with online access
to its valuable title list."

   Key features and benefits of the ebrary platform for publishers
include the following:

   --  Flexible e-commerce options - ebrary offers subscription,
        purchase, and micro-transaction models

   --  "Browse-before-buy" capabilities

   --  Integration with multiple online resources

   --  Easy PDF submission

   --  Full text searching and indexing

   --  ebrary InfoTools(TM) provides contextual linking across
        multiple online resources

   --  The ebrary Reader(TM) streams pages, eliminating cumbersome
        document downloads

   --  Personal bookshelves

   --  Highlighting and annotating

   --  Multiple search options

   --  Copying and printing with an automatic citation and URL
        hyperlink back to the source

   --  Reporting tools and usage statistics

   Additional ebrary Platform Announcements

   In separate press releases issued today, ebrary announced that the
University of Toronto and Brigham Young University have also licensed
its platform to distribute their own digitized materials online. The
press releases are available here.

   About Informa Healthcare (www.informahealthcare.com)

   Informa Healthcare is the leading provider of business information
for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics,
instrumentation, crop protection and animal health industries. Part of
Informa plc, it provides a wide range of news, magazines, R&D
databases, books, research journals, mailing lists, contact
directories and business reports.

   Informa Healthcare offers over 3,000 eBooks covering all stages of
the R&D cycle in pharmaceutical science and clinical medicine and with
around 250 new books published each year. Books are created
simultaneously in print and eBook formats and offer users flexible
delivery options for the latest titles in the field.

   About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

   ebrary(R) is a leading provider of e-content services and
technology. The company helps libraries, publishers, and other
organizations disseminate valuable information to end users, while
improving their research and document interaction.

   The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which
customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities:
ebrary customers may purchase or subscribe to e-books and other
content under a variety of pricing and access models, and they may
license the ebrary platform to distribute, sell, and market their own
content online. All options are delivered using a customizable
interface and include the ebrary Reader(TM) with InfoTools(TM)
software, which enable integration with other resources to provide an
economical and efficient way to utilize information.

   ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 120,000
e-books and other titles from more than 285 leading publishers and
aggregators.

   Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in
Palo Alto, CA.

Wagner Communications
Tish Wagner, 707-963-8935
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