Bookmaster Selected by EMC Paradigm Publishing

PRESS RELEASE

IBS North America, March 15, 2007

EMC Paradigm Publishing signs a software license agreement for IBS Bookmaster software.

EMC Paradigm Publishing, which recently celebrated fifty years in the publishing industry, has signed a software and services agreement with IBS to install the world-leading software suite for publishers – IBS Bookmaster. The new system will include financials, book production, inventory control, warehouse management, subscription management, royalties and retail management.

“The IBS Bookmaster software suite will help take our publishing business to the next level, while making us more competitive and more efficient,” states Pat McKeown, Director of Information Systems, EMC Paradigm Publishing. “We are especially looking forward to the Book Production Module that will be able to track our process from inception to final printing. Throughout the evaluation process, we felt that the IBS Bookmaster software was the most comprehensive of all the software applications we looked at.”

About EMC/Paradigm Publishing

For more than 50 years, EMC Paradigm Publishing has been committed to developing quality educational materials and providing personalized service to educators. Their School Division offers textbook programs in World Languages, Business Education, Literature, and Language Arts with supplementary and multimedia materials. The College Division offers textbook programs in Computer Technology, Allied Health, Accounting, Office Technology, Distance Learning, Staff Development and Biotechnology with supplementary and multimedia materials. EMC has customers throughout the US and Canada.