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Yahoo! Shopping Launches E- Category To Provide Consumers With Easy Access To Titles From The Top Four Houses eements With Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, , and HarperCollins to Offer Consumers One-Stop E- Shopping Destination

Yahoo! Shopping to Feature the Web's Premier of E-book Titles SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Sept. 5, 2001 -- As part of its continuing effort to offer consumers the widest selection of stores and products, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading online commerce destination, today announced that Yahoo!® Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com) has signed agreements with four major publishing houses to launch a one-stop e-book destination with unprecedented publisher participation. The agreements with Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and HarperCollins will make Yahoo! Shopping one of the first commerce platforms to offer consumers a quality collection of titles from multiple publishers. Recently ranked the No.1 portal shopping destination on the Web (Nielsen//NetRatings, May 2001) Yahoo! Shopping provides publishers with exposure to the largest purchasing audience on the Web. "Yahoo! is pleased to provide consumers with a new e-book shopping destination featuring an impressive collection of quality e-book titles from four of the largest publishing houses," said Rob Solomon, vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Shopping. "As technology enables consumers to access digital content more conveniently, we anticipate that there will be increasing demand for e-books. Aggregating a broad collection of the most sought after titles in multiple e-book formats positions us effectively to meet these needs today and to meet growing consumer demand in the future." Available today, consumers will find a diverse collection of titles within the e-books category on Yahoo! Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com/books/ebooks). The site features e-book content from best-selling authors including Patricia Cornwell, , and Lisa Scottoline to name a few. Consumers can search using the author's name, title, category or ISBN. Shoppers who prefer to browse for products will enjoy using various recommendation features, which highlight titles specific to their interests. "What's exciting about the Yahoo! e-book site is that all parties involved are converging to do what they do best in their core businesses," said Phyllis Grann, chief executive officer and president, Penguin Putnam. "The publishing houses are providing a great list of authors, and Yahoo! Shopping is offering a centralized and user-friendly e-book platform to its tremendous audience of online consumers." "With the launch of the Yahoo! e-book site, takes another important step toward the mainstream," said Jack Romanos, president and chief operating officer, Simon & Schuster, Inc. "Yahoo!'s potent combination of content and commerce is an exciting new model for digital distribution, and provides publishers with the opportunity to forge a closer connection to our ultimate customer, those who read and listen to our books." Virtually all book categories are represented on the site, including: recent , mysteries, thrillers, romance, science fiction, desktop reference books, college , travel, business and more. The growing collection of more than 1,000 listings include popular titles such as Girls Guide to Fishing and Hunting by Melissa Bank, books including the e-book exclusive series Star Trek: S.C.E , Fodor's Travel Guides from Random House Inc., and Middle Age by . E-books are easy to download, utilizing either Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader or Microsoft Reader. Both software programs are free of charge and take only a few moments to download from links that are made conveniently available on Yahoo! Shopping. About Penguin Putnam Penguin Putnam Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of the internationally renowned . Penguin Putnam is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks including , Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Grosset & Dunlap, New American , Penguin, Philomel, and Viking, among others. The Penguin Group is owned by Pearson plc, the international media group. About Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc., the publishing operation of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic and multi-media formats. Its divisions include the Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Simon & Schuster New Media, Simon & Schuster Online, Simon & Schuster U.K., and Simon & Schuster . For more information, visit our website at http://www.simonsays.com. About Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. is the U.S. division of Random House, the trade book publishing division of AG, one of the world's foremost media companies. Random House Inc., is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher, comprised of more than 100 prestigious imprints that publish some of the foremost writers of our time in , trade , mass market paperback, audio, electronic, and other formats. In the U.S., Random House, Inc. publishes more than 3,500 new titles annually and maintains an active backlist of almost 25,000 titles. About HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins is one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and is a subsidiary of Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NCP, NCPDP). Headquartered in , the company has publishing groups in the U.S., , the U.K. and Australasia. Its publishing groups include the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children's Books Group, , HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada and HarperCollins Australia/. The HarperCollins General Books Group is made up of four operating divisions: HarperTrade, Morrow/, HarperInformation and HarperSanFrancisco. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com. Yahoo! Shopping Yahoo! Shopping is the only place consumers need to go to research, compare and buy almost anything online. Consumers will find the popular brand-name retailers and buying information they want, as well as millions of products from thousands of merchants in 20 categories. Yahoo! Shopping also has convenient features, such as Yahoo! Wallet and Express Checkout, that make online shopping fast and easy. Yahoo! Shopping is part of Yahoo!'s comprehensive suite of commerce services, which also includes Yahoo! Auctions, Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Store. Nielsen//NetRatings (May 2001) recently rated Yahoo! Shopping the No. 1 portal shopping destination on the Web. Additionally, Yahoo!'s audience has been ranked the most valuable shopping audience online according to Forrester Research, and during the first six months of 2001, Yahoo! has directly enabled more than $2.7 billion of transactions on its commerce platform. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 200 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 24 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the , and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. # # #