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With our focus on e-publishing and e-book sales, we are very optimistic and realistic about the future. We continue to review and adjust our business objectives that will improve the services offered to our authors and their readers.

In addition to our current partnering with OverDrive's Content Reserve, we are developing plans to include Print On Demand to complement our current service offerings.

OverDrive Content Reserve, the most formidable e-wholesaler in the market, has made a deal with Palm to become the first vendor to distribute titles in the Palm format. Another boon for us as one of their partners! Until this agreement, Palm e-books could be purchased only though its e-bookstore, the former peanutpress.com. Now Palm will offer its 5,000 e-book titles through Content Reserve, which now gives us, 4 Points Press, a more competitive edge.

Just this month Simon and Schuster announced their partnership with OverDrive Content Reserve. A senior director at Simon and Schuster said the publisher (S&S) decided to work with OverDrive Content Reserve because between them and their partnered publishing affiliates "they've got the technical competence and the list of their retailers is growing." By this coming summer S&S titles should be moving through OverDrive Content Reserve and made available to partnering retailers. Included in their 1,200 e-book titles library are the best selling authors Stephen King and Jeffery Deaver; the Star Trek novels, and David McCullough's John Adams.

This new partnership points to a steady growth of e-book sales in a slowly but surely maturing e-book marketplace. While textbooks and educational content will likely be profitable in the e-publishing sector, our popular fiction, nonfiction and travelogues are the best-selling categories for us here at 4 Points Press. We are confident that this kind of growth shows that people really are taking up e-books and it sends a positive message about the market. We, like other e-book publishers, feel that continued growth would depend on improved devices and "high interest content." That is why our strategy is geared to content, content, and more content.

Well, that wraps us up for now. Cuddle up with your laptop or palm reader and enjoy an eBook!

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