WORLD LIBRARY AND McGRAW-HILL/PRIMIS ANNOUNCE LICENSING AGREEMENT

Library Of The Future, Second Edition, To Be Included In Electronic College
Publishing System

February 5, 1994 -- (ALA MID-WINTER MEETING, LOS ANGELES)--World Library,
Inc., the nation's leading electronic publisher of classic literature on
CD-ROM, announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with
Primis, McGraw-Hill's electronic database publishing unit. The
announcement was made today at the American Library Associations
Mid-Winter Meeting. The agreement will allow McGraw-Hill to add World
Library's Library of the Future, Second Edition, and subsequent editions
of the comprehensive CD-ROM classical literature collection to its
database.

McGraw-Hill and World Library intend to market and sell selected products
through Compton's NewMedia to college bookstores. In addition, both
companies have agreed to develop jointly a CD-ROM product which will
include selected Primis and World Library material, to be marketed
exclusively by Primis.

"McGraw-Hill will provide immediate and comprehensive marketing and sales
of Library of the Future into the college marketplace," said William
Hustwit, World Library chief executive officer. Primis provides
high-quality, convenient and cost-effective custom book publishing
services to more than 800 colleges and universities. Its database contains
nearly 100,000 pages of college-level material in 15 different disciplines
and will now include the second edition of Library of the Future, an
extensive collection of more than 2,000 novels, essays, poems, short
stories, plays and other literary works derived from a total of 950 full
works of literature, history, religion, science, philosophy and children's
classics.

McGraw-Hill designed Primis to enable instructors at colleges and
universities to custom-design the reading materials to meet the
requirements for their specific course at significant savings to the
student. Primis is the most innovative and sophisticated electronic
publishing system in the higher education market. Instructors can compile
parts of several texts and add articles, case studies, review notes and
even a syllabus to create their own textbook. Instructors simply select
material from the database and place their order with a McGraw-Hill sales
representative. Primis stores, manages and arranges the material in its
database to create the custom text. The Primis software automatically
paginates the new book, assigns it its own ISBN and creates a title and
copyright page, a table of contents and a book-specific index. The
individualized text is then bound and shipped back to the instructor
within 72 hours for approval.

High-quality books and superior service are possible with Primis because of
its state-of-the-art software program and dedicated fulfillment house and
printing facilities. The Primis software system was designed to
McGraw-Hill's specifications by Eastman Kodak Company and the printing
facilities are managed by Primis partner, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, the
world's largest commercial printer.

"The real power is in the database," said Robert D. Lynch, McGraw-Hill vice
president and director of Primis. "Primis will further strengthen its
extensive and growing database by including World Library's Library of the
Future as an integral part of its electronic literary collection."

The database, before Library of the Future 's collective works of
literature, includes 12,000 textbooks, supplements, journals, magazine
articles, lab manuals and case studies for 15 major disciplines including
accounting, business law and the legal environment, finance, economics,
education, English for speakers of other languages, engineering, English,
management, marketing, mathematics, psychology, sociology, political
science and history. Instructors teaching more than 200 different courses
use Primis texts.

Primis texts are environmentally smart, according to Lynch. All texts are
printed on eight by eleven-and-one-half inch recyclable paper using
soybean-based ink for the cover design.

As a result of the agreement with McGraw-Hill, selected World Library
products will be available in college and university bookstores across the
nation. World Library products are distributed by Compton's NewMedia,
Laser Resources, High Technology and Sony Electronic Publishing. The
products are carried by hundreds of retail outlets, including Babbages; B.
Dalton; BizMart; CompUSA; Computer City; Electronics Boutique; Egghead
Discount Software; Office Depot; Software, Etc.; Waldensoft; and Walmart.

Primis is marketed by the College Division of McGraw-Hill, Inc., one of the
world's largest multimedia publishing and information services companies.

For more information, contact World Library, Inc., 12914 Haster St., Garden
Grove, CA 92640, telephone: (714) 748-7197, fax: (714) 748-7198, or
McGraw-Hill/Primis, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020,
telephone: (212)512-6838, fax: (212) 512-2340.

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