Motricity's eReader.com Offers Free eBooks in July; Summer Reading Selections Feature Today's Bestselling Titles

Business Wire, June 30, 2005

DURHAM, N.C. -- Motricity's eReader.com, the world's largest and most popular electronic bookstore, today announced its will be offering one free eBook each day through the month of July in an effort to reward its devoted customers and encourage consumer trial of this exciting publishing medium.

eReader.com is offering best-selling titles and top-name authors in fiction and non-fiction as part of its free eBook promotion in July. These include John Updike's Rabbit, Run, Daniel Boorstin's prize-winning The Americans: The Colonial Experience, Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries, Rough Guide's New York DIRECTIONS, Louis L'Amour's Great Snow Mountains and Stephanie Laurens' Devil's Bride. Leading publishers, such as Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, RosettaBooks, Rough Guides and iBooks are supporting the program with key titles, series and special eBox sets at one-time only value prices, many at more than 50 percent off the publishers' print prices. eReader.com is a division of Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content and solutions.

Throughout the summer, eReader is hosting the annual Beach and Summer Reading Selections. eBooks are great for summer vacations and customers both can choose from The New York Times or USA Today's current bestsellers or download any of the featured "Beach Reads" selections. With dozens of the hottest titles to choose from, eReader.com provides avid readers with the lightweight, mobile editions of Bill Clinton's My Life, David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Nora Robert's Blue Dahlia and Bill Byson's A Walk in the Woods.

Customers who sign up for eReader.com's biweekly newsletters receive extra discounts and special limited time offers. To sign up for eReader.com's free newsletters, please visit: www.ereader.com/subscribe/newsletter

About eReader.com

eReader.com, a division of Motricity, is the world's largest and most popular eBookstore. eReader.com offers hundreds of new releases each month through successful partnerships with the leading trade and reference publishers such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, Merriam Webster, Time Warner Book Group and more than 80 other prominent publishers. Founded in 1998, eReader.com has built a devoted customer base with thousands of new customers purchasing for the first time every month. For more information, please visit www.ereader.com.

About Motricity

Motricity is the premier provider of mobile content to consumers, uniquely powering over 120 million mobile subscribers with its market-leading Fuel mobile content delivery platform through global partners such as Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, China Unicom, mmO2, Amazon.com, palmOne and many others. With a catalog of more than 500,000 mobile titles, the company is also one of the world's largest providers of mobile content through its network of consumer websites and channel partnerships, reaching over 10 million consumers worldwide. From games to business applications, and from ringtones to eBooks, Motricity powers the entire spectrum of mobile content delivery solutions for consumers and business partners. Motricity is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with offices in Munich, London, Beijing and San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.motricity.com.

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