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About DigitalContainers

DigitalContainers' products provide self-contained file
protection, authentication and secure e-commerce, enabling an entirely
new digital content distribution and sales system where all
intellectual property has a profitable business model. The group has
around 5,000 employees in 18 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia.

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Digital Containers are flexible enough to support
any business model: subscription, one-time purchase, rental services,
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DigitalContainers and ePage International Join Forces to Provide Secure Innovative Electronic Publishing Solution

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double the size - with a current total of over 1,200 journals.

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HEIDELBERG /DORDRECHT, Germany + NEW YORK----The specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media
is launching an improved and expanded version of its SpringerLink
online library at www. Springer Alert users receive
regular information about new publications in their field of interest,
and a secure Pay-Per-View shopping cart allows individual documents to
be purchased.

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DigitalContainers complements ePage's publishing technology
by locking down the content so it can't be fraudulently distributed
and by providing secure e-commerce and shopping cart capabilities.springerlink.
Set up in 1996, the online platform is now widely used in
universities, libraries, firms, and research institutions.

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DigitalContainers Inc.digitalcontainers. There is also an
online journals archive dating back to the 1860s.

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, they are available online and can
be cited long before the next print issue appears.

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"Working with ePage to jointly create a unique and secure product
for electronic publishing has been a great experience ," said Chip
Venters, CEO of DigitalContainers. The Cross Reference
Linking service provides cross -references to the cited articles.

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and ePage International announced today
that the two companies have teamed to provide an innovative and secure
electronic publishing solution called SWIFT Reader that will enable
publishers to easily turn out-of-print or archived material into
profits."

About ePage International

ePage provides a distributable electronic publishing technology
containing the world's most advanced page-turn algorithm and a
built-in font engine capable of rendering any language text to superb
clarity and quality. For more information, go to
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Subscribers to Springer's journals and customers with a license
can access full-text documents.

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The full-text
versions of "Springer Open Choice" articles are available free of
charge to all Internet users.
All SpringerLink visitors have free access to the journals' table
of contents and individual abstracts. More than half the journals are
"Online First" publications, i.

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The publishing solution not only closely duplicates the
experience of reading print material online but also securely protects
digital content regardless of whether it is downloaded from a
web-front store or shared by friends, ensures that content owners are
appropriately compensated for content each and every time a new reader
views it, and provides a way to recommend and sell additional related
digital content or physical goods and online advertising .

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SpringerLink: More Than Doubled in Size; Over 1 200 Scientific Journals Now Available in an Expanded and Improved Online Library

Its core topics are science, medicine, business,
engineering, architecture , construction, and transport.

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"SWIFT Reader combines ePage's
leading-edge publishing solution while taking advantage of our
patented technology to enable publishers to use SuperDistribution to
easily and affordable reach online communities of comics lovers and
collectors. This highly compressed technology enables books,
magazines, newspapers, brochures, catalogues, directories, newsletters
and more to be delivered on screen in the style of print and allows
publishers and marketers to apply their traditional print business
model to the electronic arena with great cost savings and distinct
advantages in distribution.

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One of the first markets the companies will be targeting is the
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ePage International provides a unique , miniaturized electronic
publishing solution with the world's most advanced and fully scalable
page -turning algorithm with its own universal font engine. According
to Andrew Thacker, of ePage, "ePage enables books, magazines,
newspapers, brochures, catalogues, and more to be delivered onscreen
in the style of print, quickly and easily. With this system, the
creators of digital media - audio, video, documents, software, games
and other intellectual property - can quickly and easily monetize
their digital goods by creating, packaging, registering and releasing
them into the global market in just a few easy steps. ePage International Pte Ltd, registered in
Singapore, is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Virtual Publishing
Company Ltd, and is responsible for all marketing and publishing
activities for the ePage Technology.
Content is organized into 11 "online libraries": Behavioral
Sciences, Biomedical + Life Sciences, Business + Economics, Chemistry
+ Material Science, Computer Science, Earth + Environmental Sciences,
Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences + Law, Mathematics , Medicine,
and Physics + Astronomy. The group owns 70
publishing houses, together publishing 1 ,450 journals and over 5,000
new books a year.

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Although comics publishing has experienced a
recent resurgence in interest and growth, publishers are looking to
try new formats to attract young teenagers , a demographic which
traditionally faces a rough time in comics shops, and to overcome the
biggest challenge - severe shelf space issues in bookstores and mass
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Peter Hendriks, President of Sales and Marketing, sees Springer's
expanded service as much more than the combination of two
internationally recognized publishing catalogs: "Over the past years,
thorough indexing, sophisticated search functions, and rapid access
worldwide have made SpringerLink one of the most frequently used
electronic online libraries", he said.

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Springer Science+Business Media is one of the world's leading
suppliers of scientific and specialist literature.

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The benefits of applying SWIFT Reader to comics publishing
include the ability to:

Create a new and potentially very lucrative revenue stream out
of archived materials or what are essentially 'dead assets'

Leverage archived materials while building acceptance for the
media format among young "wired" audiences

Cross sell comics, anime and other merchandise (T-shirts,
trading cards, computer games, action figures, books,
calendars, etc. Our rich formatting syntax,
embedded search and bookmarks allows us to give readers a quality,
print-like layout that makes the online reading experience totally
enjoyable ."
DigitalContainers provides secure e-commerce for distributed
networks, such as peer-to-peer networks. Intellectual
property is enclosed in "secure e-commerce objects" that provide
protection , marketing, tracking and financial transactions in a single
file and do not depend on proprietary software being pre-installed on
playback devices. The creators of
digital media - music, videos , documents, software, games and other
intellectual property - can quickly and easily monetize their digital
goods by creating, packaging, registering and releasing them into the
global market in just a few easy steps.

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Intellectual property is
enclosed in "secure e-commerce objects" that provide protection,
marketing, tracking, shopping cart and financial transactions in a
single file and do not depend on proprietary software being
pre-installed on playback devices.
Following the merger of Springer and Kluwer Academic Publishers
(KAP) in 2004, 750 publications were added. The online library also
contains over 2,700 volumes in 25 book series and a growing number of
handbooks, reference works, eBooks, and databases.