Journey Education Marketing Announces Top 10 Best Selling Student Software Titles for 2nd Quarter 2003

Business Wire, July 29, 2003

Business Editors/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers

SIGGRAPH 2003

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2003

Dallas-based Journey Education Marketing, Inc., North America's leading seller of software tools to the academic market, announces its Top 10 Best Selling Student Software titles for the 2nd quarter of 2003 at Siggraph today.

"Most best-selling student software lists are based on school bookstore sales. Journey's Top 10 Best Selling Student Software titles -- based on sales figures from the company's 1,900 online eStores -- is a more accurate picture of what students, faculty and educational institutions are really buying," said company president and CEO Mike Fischler.

Top 10 Best Selling Student Software Titles
2nd Quarter (April 1 - June 30, 2003)
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Rank                Title

1.                  Microsoft Office XP Professional - Win
2.                  Adobe Acrobat Pro 6.0 - Win
3.                  Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade - Win
4.                  Macromedia Studio MX 1.1 - Win
5.                  PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire SE - Win
6.                  Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003 AE - Win
7.                  Intuit QuickBooks Pro Edition 2003 - Win
8.                  Adobe Design Collection - Mac
9.                  Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - Mac
10.                 Macromedia Studio MX 1.1 - Mac

Since 1990, Journey has offered significant discounts on student technology products to qualified students, educators, and faculty of colleges and K - 12 schools. Journey operates the online software stores for all college bookstores managed by both Barnes and Noble College Bookstores and the Follett Higher Education Group. In all, Journey operates over 1,900 eStores which serve more than six million students.

"While it's important to pay attention to the sales results of college bookstores that stock software, we feel it is also important to pay attention to what is being ordered online. Typically, college stores only stock a limited amount of software products, compared with the thousands of titles available online," explains Fischler. "Our list really takes the pulse of student software purchases," he adds, "after all, if you're a stocking store, you can't sell what you don't stock."

For more information on Journey, visit www.JourneyEd.com.