>> 2000/10/10

■Book browser company, RealRead Inc. opens Tokyo office

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 10, 2000--RealRead Inc., a B2B on-line marketing solution provider has established a sales office in Tokyo, Japan.

Yoshi Kitamura, founder and CEO of RealRead said: "Our service is language independent and is capable of handling different characters such as Kanji. Now we are getting more and more inquiries from Japanese publishers and on-line merchants and we decided to set up a sale office in Tokyo. Although Japanese publishers have been behind Americans in digitizing book contents, they are catching up and we are starting to feel that pressure. According to Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyusha, a research organization for the publishing industry, the 1999 total book sales in Japan was 993.6 billion yen which is about US$9 billion. I think Japan will be a great market for our product and it is going to be very interesting."

RealRead(www.RealRead.com) provides services to on-line publication merchants designed to increase on-line sales by allowing potential buyers to preview publications on-line. RealRead browsing technology brings users a real reading room experience. Not only the pages look exactly like the one from real books including color pictures, photos, and graphics, its special page flipping action recreates the actual book feeling and also to make it easier on your eyes compared to scrolling down movement. RealRead technology also provides various security and copyright protection features to protect rights of authors and publishers.

For more information and demonstration, please visit the RealRead's web site at www.RealRead.com.

CONTACT:

RealRead Inc.

Sal Miwa:salmiwa@realread.com

Tel.(212) 554-4141Fax.(212) 554-4151

http://www.realread.com