Consortium for Worker Education Selects booktech.comto Provide Education Materials for Thousands...

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WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000

booktech.com (AMEX: BTC), a first mover in digital and on-demand custom content publishing focused on the education market, today announced that the Consortium for Worker Education

(CWE), a not-for-profit leader in workforce education, training and career services in New York City and Buffalo, NY, has selected booktech.com as the preferred vendor of customized and online educational and training materials for its far-reaching distance learning and classroom programs.

This is the second major contract awarded to the company over the past 3 months.

Funded by 47 unions, representing more than 800,000 workers, as well as by New York State and federal agencies, CWE conducted education and training programs for more than 40,000 workers and professionals in 1999. Over 800,000 union members and many others are eligible for CWE educational and training programs.

Starting with courses for surgical technologists and patient care associates this fall, and more than 120 other courses in early 200l, booktech.com will demonstrate its unique capability of providing customized and copyright-protected textbooks and other materials for CWE courses as electronic downloads to student computers, as well as in the form of printed books and CDs. According to Dr. Francisco Madera, CWE Director of Development, "booktech.com will be a key partner in CWE's ambitious new efforts to offer many of its workforce, health care and other courses online through the Web."

"Even as we expand CWE classroom training programs in the five boroughs of New York City," Dr. Madera says, "imagine the thousands more students that we will be able to reach through computer-assisted distance education, in which our teachers will be supported with online or printed training materials customized to their specifications by booktech.com." "Also," continues Madera, "we expect that booktech.com will join CWE in international partnerships to provide distance education worldwide."

Dr. Morris Shepard, Chairman and CEO of booktech.com, is equally enthusiastic about his Company's association with the Consortium for Worker Education. "As a long-time professor myself, and as one always eager to create the best of text materials to support my teaching, I am glad that we can now help do the same for the teachers of CWE."

"This contract", Dr. Shepard continued, "is another example of the acceptance of the Company's services by large learning institutions and on management's ability to execute its business plan and add value to shareholders. It will be especially satisfying to provide innovative materials for the very worthy students and trainees of the New York unions, and for those in such CWE programs as health care, Satellite Child Care, professional re-employment and outplacement, and the degree programs for union members at the City University of New York."

About booktech.com

booktech.com (www.booktech.com), founded in 1995 and headquartered in Woburn, MA, is a digital and online publisher of customized textbooks and other educational materials for higher education, K-12 schools, distance education, not-for-profit organizations, and corporate training. Company shares have traded on the American Stock Exchange since April 5, 2000 (symbol: AMEX/BTC). booktech.com has published 6,000 individual customized textbook titles for more than 2,500 professors on 500 campuses. It is becoming an important custom publishing resource for K-12 schools with such noteworthy titles as: Breaking the Spanish Barrier, Breaking the French Barrier, Trade Routes and Choices. booktech.com is the custom publishing partner to a growing list of leading institutions in distance education which value its capabilities for delivering customized and copyright-protected educational materials as electronic downloads, CDs or printed books.

About Consortium for Worker Education

The Consortium for Worker Education (CWE) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1985 to provide schooling, training and employment services for workers in New York City. CWE workforce education and training programs include job skills and upgrading; ESL, GED and college preparation; child care, health care, parenting resources, and welfare to work. CWE worker career centers for dislocated workers provided one-stop assistance to 12,000 participants in 1999. CWE-sponsored union members also study for BA and MA degrees at the City University of New York. CWE offers hundreds of classroom courses in the five boroughs of New York City and courses at a distance to sites in Buffalo, NY, as well as courses for audiences in 10 other states and internationally. CWE is now prioritizing the implementation of computer-mediated distance learning and training programs. CWE has an annual budget of approximately $90 million, funded by union, New York State, and federal sources. Nearly one million workers and other participants are eligible for its education and training programs.

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