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Open Book Systems (OBS)

The Internet is more than a new platform for marketing existing print product. It is a new medium for developing, providing, and licensing custom access to content. OBS welcomes the publishing challenge of the 90s: Building successful Internet sites as we develop and protect tomorrow's content.

Back in 1992, OBS pioneered Internet publishing. Today, we build custom web sites for publishers worldwide, enabling our clients to leverage their existing marketing, editorial, and production resources to reach the extensive new online audience. Thanks to OBS's custom-tailored software, each publisher can update and monitor his own site -- from the desktop.

OBS CUSTOM PUBLISHING TOOLS

• Online manuscript submission, creates a global "author magnet" for your company.
• From concept through implementation, OBS developed Miramax Films' Internet version of the Academy Award winning film, Il Postino (The Postman).
• Working with OBS, publishers update and revise their own sites.
• Publications are brought to life through online quizzes and tests.
• U-Drive Web tracking tools offer valuable marketing information.
• You can sell your products online through a custom catalog
• OBS offers global distribution through mirror servers.
• Converting books into databases can greatly increase your readership.

Vision and creativity make OBS sites unique. We work with each publisher to address their content and marketing needs. With a multilingual background, OBS opens the doors to the global audience, giving our clients a competitive advantage. OBS puts the control of each publisher's site right where it belongs - in the publishers' own hands.

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Selected publisher client list:

Addison-Wesley AT&T Bolt Beranek and Newman Cisco Systems EUnet Deutschland GmbH Farrar, Straus and Giroux Frankfurt Book Fair Globe Pequot Gordon and Breach Holt Rinehart and Winston Houghton Mifflin The Internet Society John Wiley & Sons Library of Congress Little, Brown and Company Macmillan Computer Publishing USA

Marcel Dekker McGraw-Hill Miramax Films MIT Press New York University O'Reilly and Associates Paraclete Press Performance Systems International (PSI) Random House Simon & Schuster Springhouse Publishers Sprint Time Warner USAID Viking/Penguin