LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE, THIRD EDITION, WEIGHS IN AT 3,500 WORKS OF
LITERATURE

More than 1,750 Titles Including Over 3,500 Novels, Stories, Essays, Poems,
Historical & Religious Documents on Single CD-ROM for $395; Also Features
Video for First Time

November 15, 1993 -- (GARDEN GROVE, CA) - World Library, Inc., the nation's
leading electronic publisher of classic literature, has announced its most
comprehensive collection of literature on CD-ROM, according to William
Hustwit, chief executive officer. The $395 disc comes in a joint Windows
and DOS format, with extensive search features for each format.

Library of the Future, Third Edition, will add nearly 1,500 new titles,
including fables and stories by the Brothers Grimm, and works by Jane
Austen, Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rudyard Kipling
and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The entire text of three popular John Steibeck
novels (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and The Pearl) will also be
included. The collection will also integrate video clips for the first
time. More than 20 minutes of video will be contained in the title,
including scenes from Sherlock Holmes and Aladdin.

Library of the Future, Third Edition, thus becomes the most extensive
collection of literary works available on a single CD-ROM at any price.
The complete text of more than 3,500 novels, essays, poems, short stories,
plays, religious and historical documents, as well as other literary
titles from a total of 1,750 works of literature, history, religion,
science, philosophy and children's classics have been compressed onto the
disc.

New works also include Doll 's House, by Henrik Ibsen; Casey at the Bat, by
Ernest Lawrence Thayer; poems by William Cullen Bryant, and selections
from many modem authors, including T.S. Eliot, Grantland Rice, George
Bernard Shaw and Jules Verne.

The disc also includes the full text of all 2,000-plus titles from the
Library of the Future, Second Edition, which is still available for $299.
Those titles include the complete King James Bible, the Koran, Egyptian
Book of the Dead and Bhagavad Gita; Magna Carta, U.S. Constitution,
Federalist Papers and Declaration of Independence; as well as the complete
works of William Shakespeare and the complete Sherlock Holmes, Canterbury
Tales and Milton's Paradise Lost. There are also hundreds of other titles
by authors such as Aristotle, Confucius, Kant, Plato, Socrates; Cervantes,
Dickens, Fielding, James, Melville, Twain, Voltaire; Coleridge, Homer,
Keats, Virgil, Whitman; Ibsen and Sophocles.

Classic novels in this collection include Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov,
Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Shelley's
Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and
hundreds more.

Extensive Search Capabilities, Auto-Scroll and Variable Fonts Add to Ease
of Use

Library of the Future, Third Edition, also features a powerful search
engine to locate all references to any of the CD's more than 100 million
words or phrases in a matter of seconds. Users can access any of the works
instantly from a main menu, as well as designate up to 99 bookmarks. The
program also lets users scan for any word or various combinations of words
(e.g., find all references to "love" and "hate" within four words of each
other; find "Paris" or "London" or "Rome"). These word searches can be
within a single text; a single author's works (e.g., Shakespeare); a
single category (religion, history, poetry); a single time period or
country; or any combination of the above.

"We think that Library of the Future, Third Edition, is a tremendous value
for the consumer," said Hustwit. "Almost unbelievably, the cost of
acquiring hard-cover copies of each text would be more than $15,000--and
that doesn't include any of the benefits of the software."

Readable under MS-DOS or Windows, the disc's Windows/MPC interface is where
the product truly shines. The product's Windows interface allows users to
view up to eight documents simultaneously, which greatly enhances a user's
ability to compare and contrast various works. Auto-scrolling can be set
at variable speeds, allowing the user to choose a pace they feel
comfortable reading at, which can be paused for breaks, thereby
facilitating the ease of reading text directly from the PC. Furthermore,
variable sized fonts allow individuals to create their own large-text
books for more comfortable reading from the entire Library of the Future.

The texts can also be output to any Windows-based word processor and
further stylized in any size or TrueType font, which can be useful for
desktop publishing, term papers, etc. In addition, individual titles can
be downloaded to a floppy disk, so one can read a novel at a time on one's
laptop computer.

Over the years, earlier versions of Library of the Future have been
acclaimed with numerous awards, including best CD-ROM (Chicago Tribune),
CD-ROM of the Year/Users Choice Award (Byte) and Readers' Choice Award
(Multimedia World). "We expect that the Library of the Future, Third
Edition, will continue to lead the way as an application that justifies
the purchase of a CD-ROM drive, as well as a title that is indispensable
for the literary connoisseur," said Hustwit.

The company has since sold more than 100,000 CD-ROM titles worldwide. 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, Electronic Boutique, Egghead Discount Software,
Office Depot, Sarn's Club, Sears, Software, Etc., Waldensoft and Walmart.

At COMDEX/Fall '93, World Library will display its entire line of
electronic publishing products in the Compton's New Media booth, Las Vegas
Convention Center, South Annex, Booth #A-716. For more information,
contact World Library, Inc., 12914 Haster St., Garden Grove, CA 92640.
Telephone: (714) 748-7197. Fax: (714) 748-7198.

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