Alex Kanakaris Interviews Dick Brass, Vice President, Technology Development, Microsoft and Jill Thomas, President, ION Systems, on 'The State of Electronic Publishing'

Business Wire, May 5, 1999

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 1999--

World Web Watch Net TV Show Debuts Today at 9 a.m. Pacific

Time With Program Filmed on Location at Book Expo America

Alex Kanakaris, CEO of Kanakaris Communications, Inc. (OTC BB:KANA) interviews Dick Brass, Vice President, Technology Development, Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq:MSFT) and Jill Thomas, President, ION Systems Inc. on "The State of Electronic Publishing" for World Web Watch, a weekly program exploring Internet issues.

The show premieres at 9 a.m. Pacific Time and can be viewed at www.kanakaris.com, www.NetBooks.com, www.Cyberpop.com, www.FSChannel.com, and www.webradio.com/kana/index2.html.> -0-

     Topics discussed on the program include:

     --   Print versus online publishing
     --   The evolution of computers as a source for reading books
     --   Security issues
     --   Cost of delivery
     --   Efficiency
     --   Advertising
     --   Projected growth of electronic publishing
     --   Emerging technologies

The first episode was filmed on location at Book Expo America in Los Angeles where Kanakaris Communications, Inc. signed several publishers to Partner Agreements for electronic delivery of books on its web site www.NetBooks.com.

Kanakaris Communications is publicly traded on the OTC Bulletin Board and in Germany. For further information on Kanakaris Communications (www.kanakaris.com), contact Colby Marceau, Director of Public/Investor Relations, at 714/444-0560, fax: 714/549-8970; e-mail: info@kanakaris.com; 3303 Harbor Blvd., No. F-3, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

Guests on World Web Watch appear independently and there is no implication of any affiliation between the guests, companies they represent, and Kanakaris Communications. Alex Kanakaris, in addition to being CEO of Kanakaris Communications, is an Internet pioneer and was recently interviewed by Vinton Cerf, founder of the Internet, and Caspar Weinberger, Chairman of Forbes magazine, about the future of the Internet.

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