NetLibrary and Fatbrain.com Form eBook Alliance

Companies Bring Leading eBook Technology to Corporate Market

BOULDER, COLO. - Sept. 18, 2000 - NetLibrary Inc., the leading provider of eBooks and Internet-based content management services, today announced an eBook alliance with Fatbrain.com (Nasdaq: FATB), the leader in Web-based information management for businesses.

The alliance brings together Fatbrain.com's expertise in information management and print book distribution with NetLibrary's Virtual Library Solution to serve the needs of corporate libraries, corporate universities, and government agencies. Fatbrain.com will add NetLibrary eBooks to the solutions currently provided to their customer base of 350 Fortune 1000 companies. NetLibrary will host, manage and distribute eBooks to complement Web-based bookstores and information management systems available through Fatbrain.com.

NetLibrary launched its Virtual Library Solution for corporate libraries and corporate universities in April. Since then, NetLibrary has sold eBook collections and content management services to information technology, entertainment, and manufacturing corporations and organizations, including ABC News, Commonwealth Edison, Deere & Company, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Raytheon Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc.

"The advantages of NetLibrary's Virtual Library Solution for corporations are amplified when combined with Fatbrain.com's comprehensive intranet bookstore fulfillment system for hard-bound professional books," said NetLibrary Vice President of Corporate Sales Bruce Greiner. "We look forward to working with Fatbrain.com, a dynamic company with proven solutions to serve corporate knowledge management needs."

Dan Rush, vice president and general manager of products and sales for Fatbrain.com, said, "NetLibrary's eBook collection and content management solution complements our own Information Exchange service offering for businesses. Being able to offer eBooks from NetLibrary and hard-bound books from Fatbrain.com results in a compelling solution for our customers that meets the professional knowledge needs of many types of companies and organizations."

About Fatbrain.com

Fatbrain.com helps organizations capitalize on business information and professionally published materials by streamlining its management and distribution, enabling delivery in digital and/or hardcopy format directly into the hands of employees, partners and customers. Fatbrain.com's easy-to-use, comprehensive Information Exchange service offering allows organizations to easily publish and offer access to professional and business materials when, where and how the recipient wants it via an online information resource center. Today, the company's Web-based information management services reach more than 3.5 million desktops at almost 350 of the Fortune 1000 corporations worldwide. Visit Fatbrain.com on the Web at http://www.fatbrain.com.

About NetLibrary

NetLibrary's digital rights management infrastructure has been adopted by hundreds of publishers of academic, reference, scholarly, textbooks, and trade books. NetLibrary develops, archives, hosts, and securely distributes eBooks through a variety of channels, including universities and K-12 schools, public, and corporate libraries. NetLibrary eBooks are full-text searchable and readable on a variety of platforms.

Contact:
Brian Bell
NetLibrary Inc.
(303) 381-8703
bbell@NetLibrary.com