Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (AMEX:FEP) is the worldwide market leader in handheld electronic books, including the popular BOOKMAN® series. The Company also licenses its hardware and software to third party technology partners such as Adobe Systems, Ademco (a division of Honeywell), Mobile Digital Media (formerly a division of Palm) and Macromedia, Inc. The Company is the exclusive producer and distributor of ROLODEX® Electronics brand of personal information management products and the distributor throughout North and South America of SEIKO branded reference products. Franklin has sold more than 29,000,000 electronic books and currently publishes or distributes more than 8000 titles, including dictionaries and bilingual dictionaries; encyclopedias; Bibles; entertainment titles; education and tutorial publications; trade books; and medical reference works. Franklin products, available in 16 languages, are sold in 45,000 retail outlets worldwide, through catalogs and online at http://www.franklin.com. The Company has sales and distribution subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and Mexico, and a production management office in Hong Kong. ROLODEX® is a registered trademark of Berol Corporation, a subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid Inc. SEIKO® is a registered trademark of SEIKO Corporation.