Digital Kiosks Enable All Publishers and Retailers to Sell Protected eBook and Audio Content
OverDrive Media Vending Provides Total Merchant Services
With DRM
CLEVELAND--March 19, 2002--OverDrive, Inc.,
(www.overdrive.com) a world leader in eBook, DRM and media marketplace
solutions, today introduced Digital Kiosk, an "all-in-one" online vending
machine for the sale of protected digital content. OverDrive supplies
complete merchant account services and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
technology with each ready-made Digital Kiosk enabling publishers and
retailers to protect and sell eBooks, audio books, music and digital media
over the Web.
Digital Kiosks provide a complete retail system with catalog, shopping cart,
real-time credit card processing, secure hosting and 24/7 technical support.
Anyone can open a Digital Kiosk to merchandise, protect, and sell eBooks,
newsletters, reports, journals, music, video and audio book titles using DRM
technologies from Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems. Digital Kiosk
shoppers can instantly purchase and download products to personal computers,
laptops, Pocket PCs and portable media players including over 350 million
Windows Media Players distributed worldwide.
"Now any publisher can sell eBook and digital audio book products directly
from their own website," stated Steve Potash, OverDrive CEO. "The one-time
setup fee for a fully-featured Digital Kiosk is less than $5,000 including
DRM and are ready to generate revenue immediately," according to Potash.
"Digital Kiosks also include a retail account with OverDrive Content Reserve
(www.contentreserve.com) providing access to an extensive inventory of
resalable premium content from over 300 publishers including HarperCollins,
Random House and McGraw-Hill," he added.
Digital Kiosks feature a "Direct Buy Link" where each product has its own
unique web address (URL) so publishers, agents and authors can promote
product sales by placing a Direct Buy Link to a specific title in web pages,
email, print ads and materials. OverDrive will launch a "To Protect and To
Sell" marketing campaign at the upcoming BookExpo America trade show in NYC
aimed at demonstrating to publishers, associations, educational and training
institutions how a Digital Kiosk can profit their business.
Other features of Digital Kiosk include:
-- Attractive, professionally designed Kiosk templates (skins)
branded with company name and logo.
-- Support for international use including processing of global
currencies.
-- Flexible merchandising and promotions for featured titles.
-- Web-based administration and management of Digital Kiosk store
from a PC connected to the Internet.
-- Real-time merchant credit card services for MasterCard, VISA
and American Express.
-- DRM services for suppliers to manage licensing rights and
protecting content.
"OverDrive Digital Kiosks are affordable and complete solutions for
publishers and retailers who seek to protect and sell digital content from
their websites," said Claudia Weissman, OverDrive`s Director of Business
Development. "They eliminate all the programming, integration of various
services, secure hosting, and fulfillment burdens otherwise required to
develop a solution for the sale of DRM content," Weissman added. Digital
Kiosks represent the result of OverDrive`s global success in media
marketplace solutions including retail storefronts for divisions of WHSmith
of London, Vivendi Universal of Paris, and Follett Corporation in the US.
About OverDrive, Inc.
OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com) is a leading provider of technology and
services enabling the secure management and distribution of digital content
over global networks. As a strategic partner with Microsoft Corporation
and Adobe Systems, Inc., OverDrive delivers proven technology for
trusted fulfillment and resale of premium content from the world`s leading
media companies. As a Principal Member of the Open eBook Forum (OeBF),
OverDrive is strategically focused on driving specifications and standards
for the emerging and rapidly evolving electronic publishing industry. The
company was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
CONTACT:
OverDrive, Inc.
Jennifer A. Jackson
216/573-6886 ext. 207
jjackson@overdrive.com
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