Bertelsmann, AG Licenses Personal Library Software Engine for Electronic
Publishing

(Rockville, MD, May 3, 1995) -- Personal Library Software Inc., (PLS),
today announced that its intelligent text-search software has been adopted
by eps Bertelsmann GmBH in Guetersloh, Germany for its electronic
publishing. Bertelsmann will be using the PLS engine to develop CD-ROM's
with advanced full-text searching in German and other major European
languages.

Bertelsmann is Europe's largest media company, and a worldwide leader in
book and media publishing. The electronic publishing division, eps
Bertelsmann, develops CD-ROM based multimedia titles for member companies
of the Bertelsmann organization and is also one of Germany's leading
developers for a wide range of commercial publishers. "The choice of PLS
for our electronic publishing needs was based not only on their renowned
intelligent search features, but also the multi-language capabilities of
the software," stated Manfred Stiens, head of the eps Bertelsmann
development department. "One of Bertelsmann's goals is to expand further
into many forms of electronic publishing, and this is supported by PLS's
overall vision for integrating CD-ROM, the Internet, and the World Wide
Web."

PLS opened an office in the Netherlands last year to focus on developing
partnerships and expanding its reach in the European electronic publishing
community. With full support for all the major European languages, the
suite of software products offer multilingual querying, dynamic concept
searching, relevance ranking, and a distributed database architecture. "We
are happy to have this opportunity to form this strategic relationship
with Bertelsmann as our partner in the German electronic publishing
marketplace," stated Richard Black, PLS's vice president of business
development.

Bertelsmann is a privately held multinational group of companies spread
across more than 40 countries. Among its best known American enterprises
are RCA Records, Arista Records, the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing
Group, and the magazines Family Circle and McCall's. Over the past few
months Bertelsmann has moved aggressively into broader areas of electronic
publishing in both Europe and North America.

Personal Library Software is the leading supplier of intelligent
text-retrieval for online, CD-ROM and Internet publishing applications.
CPL is the industrial strength, scalable search engine at the core of all
PLS products. A list of leading publishers and information companies using
PLS technology includes America Online, Apple Computer, DataTimes, Dow
Jones, Financial Times Information Services, Grolier, Hewlett-Packard
(www.hp.com), Dialog/Knight-Ridder Information, NewsNet, Prodigy, Time
Inc. (www.timeinc.com), Appleton & Lange, Congressional Quarterly, and the
U.S. House of Representatives (www.house.gov).

PLS can be reached at its headquarters at 2400 Research Blvd., Rockville,
MD 20850, (301) 990-1155, its European office at Heidepad 2, 6584 CX
Molenhoek, The Netherlands 31-805-86-300, and its Santa Clara, CA, office
at 5201 Great America Pkwy, Suite 320, Santa Clara, CA 95054-1140, (408)
982-2590. Access to PLS Inc. via the Internet is available via
http://www.pls.com or info@pls.com.

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