Best Selling Products From Artisoft, Canon, FileMaker, Lotus, Macromedia, NetObjects, Network Associates, Symantec and Others Now Offered As Digital Downloads Through Online Retailers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Preview Systems (NASDAQ:PRVW)
and Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM)
today announced an expansion in the availability of premium software titles for online purchase and digital download by online retail customers of Ingram Micro Inc. Adding to its substantial library of downloadable products, Ingram Micro uses Preview's technology to offer online retailers the ability to securely sell and instantaneously fulfill popular software applications.
Ingram Micro already distributes physical inventory for many of the world's top software publishers. Recently, Ingram Micro expanded its fulfillment capabilities to also include digital downloads from many of these publishers.
Leading retailers have already partnered with Ingram Micro to sell digital software downloads. Immediately following a purchase transaction from one of these retailer's sites, Preview's solution manages the exchange of the digital products from Ingram Micro's servers directly to the customer's PC. In many cases, Preview's solution also enables the retailers to combine physical and digital goods in the same transaction, thereby simplifying the end-user's overall online shopping experience.
"Preview Systems' solution has helped us to meet our customers' demands and streamline our business with online retailers," said Dave Nalley, vice president and general manager of the consumer and Internet markets division at Ingram Micro. "We now offer a more comprehensive service to our customers by providing fast access to physical goods coupled with secure, real-time fulfillment capabilities for digital goods."
Added Preview Systems CEO Vincent Pluvinage, "Software publishers, record labels, distributors, service providers and retailers have already adopted Preview's digital goods commerce solution and are selling premium titles as digital downloads. Preview's technology is the link that connects these respective channel partners to a global e-commerce network so they can leverage their existing business relationships and quickly implement their digital goods e-commerce strategies."
In addition to Ingram Micro, other companies in Preview's e-commerce network include Symantec, Macromedia, FileMaker, Network Associates, NetObjects, The Learning Company, EMI Recorded Music, Navarre, Supertracks, Reciprocal, Musicland, buy.com, Beyond.com and many others.
About Preview Systems
Preview Systems' technology solutions enable global e-commerce networks for electronically distributing and licensing digital goods. Its systems provide an Internet-based infrastructure to connect publishers of software, music and other digital products, simultaneously to any of their distribution channels. Distribution rights, branding, licensing transactions and reports, worldwide electronic fulfillment to end-users and control of their usage rights are securely managed in real-time. Preview Systems is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol PRVW.
About Ingram Micro Inc.
Operating in 34 countries, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM)
is the world's largest wholesale provider of technology products and services, with sales exceeding $28 billion in 1999. Ingram Micro's key business units deliver fulfillment and distribution, product acquisition and selection, supply-chain automation and programs, as well as eProcurement, to more than 175,000 technology solution providers, manufacturers and businesses located in more than 100 countries. Ingram Micro is driving the evolution of wholesale distribution for the information technology industry and is the operation's engine behind leading global e-businesses today.
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The statements contained in this release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, including statements regarding Preview's expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future and in particular, growth of the digital software distribution marketplace, deployment of our solution by our announced customer and consumer downloads of content through our solution. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including: the growth and acceptance of electronic distribution of software; the growth of Preview's network of software publishers distributors, service providers and retailers; the amount of premium content available for digital download; technical challenges specific to our customers' implementation of our solution; and the ability of the solution to achieve desired security and other expected business benefits. Actual results may differ materially due to these and other factors. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Preview's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the Risk Factors described in Preview's final Prospectus dated December 7, 1999 for its initial public offering and our press releases. Preview assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
Source: Preview Systems
Contact: media, Paul Breton, pbreton@mprm.com, or Calvin Fleming,
cfleming@mprm.com, 323-933-3399, both of mPRm Public Relations, for Preview
Systems; or investors, Erik Knettle of Thomson Financial Investor Relations,
212-701-1963, erik.knettel@tfn.com, for Preview Systems