Personal Library Software Combines with The Electronic Newsstand to Bring
Publishers onto the World Wide Web

(Rockville, MD, June 14, 1995) -- Personal Library Software Inc. (PLS) and
The Electronic Newsstand today announced an agreement to offer publishers
a full-service solution for entering the Digital Age, and their potential
subscribers a powerful searching tool on the World Wide Web.

The licensing and joint-service agreement calls for The Electronic
Newsstand to incorporate PLWeb, the industry-leading search engine from
PLS, into the heart of its services offered to publishers. The agreement
expands a cooperative relationship that began with The Electronic
Newsstand licensing PLWeb for its well-known central publishing server
(www.enews.com).

Now publishers participating in The Electronic Newsstand also can choose to
employ the search power of PLS in building an individualized presence on
the Web that includes dynamic access to their own content.

Founded in July 1993, The Electronic Newsstand provides the Internet
community with free, easy access to a wide range of information furnished
by many of the world's leading publishers. Premier periodicals including
Business Week, The Economist, and Discover are just a few of the hundreds
of interesting publications covering computers, business, foreign affairs,
sports, politics, and many other areas. The Newsstand is designed to
provide sample articles from current issues and solicit subscriptions for
the print publications. The Newsstand also includes informative
advertising forums from leading companies such as Fidelity Investments and
Visa International.

Users of The Electronic Newsstand can browse the publishers' samplings for
free, just like a conventional magazine rack. Using the Global Search
option on the Newsstand's home page, browsing Internauts also can search
across all publishers' archives employing PLWeb's advanced search engine
for key words or concepts, and retrieve the results interactively. For
example, a search under the concept of "travel" yields relevant articles
from Travel Holiday and InsideFlyer magazines, among others.

Leveraging its expertise in developing a Web-based commercial presence, The
Newsstand has developed partnerships to provide complete solutions for
traditional publishers expanding into this new medium. In choosing PLS as
a key partner, Jeffrey Dearth, chief executive officer of The Electronic
Newsstand, said, "PLS has a wealth of electronic publishing experience,
and the PLWeb product is so powerful that it provides many of the
essential building blocks for an online system right out of the box."

For PLS, working with The Newsstand evokes a similar vision of providing
commercial publishers the key products and services they need in this
revolutionary electronic medium.

"The Electronic Newsstand is a perfect complement to PLS," said Matthew
Koll, president of PLS. "The prime customers they serve are publishers,
and publishers need a modern search engine such as ours for an effective
electronic presence."

PLWeb 2.0 is a breakthrough in both price and performance, offering the
richest set of features for electronic publishers -- including a
distributed database architecture, natural-language querying, user
authentication and billing features. It was released on May 15, and is
available by download from the PLS Web site (www.pls.com) for a free 45
day trial evaluation. Priced at $4,995 per server, it also leads the
market in affordability. The Electronic Newsstand, launched with eight
magazines, now features more than 300 titles. Publishing clients include
McGraw-Hill, Times Mirror and Time, Inc. The Newsstand has sold magazine
subscriptions in every state of the Union and in more than 60 countries.
Accesses to The Newsstand exceed 6 million per month.

Personal Library Software is the leading supplier of intelligent
text-retrieval software for online, CD-ROM and Internet publishing
applications. The PLS search engine is at the core of products and
services from leading information companies including America Online,
Apple Computer, DataTimes, Dow Jones, Financial Times Information
Services, Grolier, Dialog/Knight-Ridder Information (www.dialog.com),
Hewlett Packard (www.hp.com), NewsNet, Prodigy, Time Inc.
(www.timeinc.com), Appleton & Lange, Congressional Quarterly, the U.S.
House of Representatives (www.house.gov), and the U.S. Department of
Energy (www.ohre.doe.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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