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Impelsys Partners with Audiomedia Production To Offer Complete Talking eBook Solution

Publishers now can take advantage of VirtualPages™ from Impelsys and Audiomedia Production’s audio content system from a single vendor.

NEW YORK, NY – September 24, 2009 – Impelsys, a global leader in electronic content delivery solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Audiomedia Production (AP), an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers, to offer audio content for Impelsys’ VirtualPages, a reader that quickly and cost-effectively converts print into electronic editions. Publishers now have a single-vendor solution for all eBook production needs.

Together, Impelsys and AP enable the VirtualPages Talking eBook. Impelsys’ VirtualPages technology plus AP’s audio content transforms standard printed books into virtual electronic books that offer a variety of illustrative and audio features such as narration, individually clickable words and read-along color-coding of words. Some other features include:

Together, Impelsys and AP enable the VirtualPages Talking eBook. Impelsys’ VirtualPages technology plus AP’s audio content transforms standard printed books into virtual electronic books that offer a variety of illustrative and audio features such as narration, individually clickable words and read-along color-coding of words. Some other features include:

• User customization features to turn on/off the text highlights and/or audio
• Page flip feature
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Thumbnail view
• Jump to page
• Links to Word Glossary
'Email to friend' option

“Over the past eight months, Impelsys has impressed us with the quality of service it provides to its clients and with the proven success of its digital solutions,” explained Brendan Feeney, AP’s Founder and CEO.  “Through Impelsys our customers will have access to an experienced eBook conversion vendor with large-scale production and hosting capabilities.”

Impelsys and AP plan to continue to enhance the eBook experience, push technological limits and lead the direction in which the electronic publishing industry is headed. With a partnership like this in place, publishers and other industry affiliates will be able to take advantage of production and management cost savings by working with one vendor to implement a complete online strategy and offer a more attractive eBook production solution to clients.

“Impelsys strives to lead in the electronic publishing industry and to offer the most innovative solutions available to our customers. Partnering with vendors that enhance our solutions is top of mind,” said Sameer Shariff, Founder and CEO of Impelsys. “Our customers will benefit from AP’s world class readers and audio production expertise in this complete eBook solution that includes both high level audio and digital content.”

Impelsys also offers a self-service electronic content delivery platform called iPublishCentral. iPublishCentral allows publishers of any size to make content available for sale online and promote their brands and titles across the Web through viral marketing.  With minimal to no cost, publishers can transition content online and can offer readers a high-resolution digital reading experience with viewing/previewing, buying, renting and promotional capabilities through iPublishCentral, iPublishWidget and ViewInside.

About Impelsys

Impelsys, a leader in providing electronic content delivery solutions to the global publishing market, helps its clients compete, evolve and grow in an increasingly complex marketplace. Impelsys-powered technologies like iPlatform™ and VirtualPages™ help publishers deliver content online quickly and cost effectively.  Impelsys’ passion for client success has helped it build long term partnerships with its customers becoming critical in the client’s electronic delivery strategy. Leading clients include McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Benchmark Education, Marshall Cavendish and Houghton Mifflin. Headquartered in New York, Impelsys operates across North America, Europe and India. For more information, please visit http://www.impelsys.com/.

About Audiomedia Production

Audiomedia Production is an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers. With nearly a decade of experience in the industry, AP is a relied upon partner to clients including Hachette Book Group, Audible.com and Benchmark Education Company, and has earned a deserving reputation for competent project management and quality audio. Located in New York City, AP draws on a pool of world class creative professionals, all of whom share a passion for producing engaging, enlightened audio. For more information on solutions and clients or to view an online demo, please visit http://www.audiomediaproduction.com/.