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Press Release

November 11, 2004

Contact: Michael Hay: 954-788-6634

AV Books Publishes the 9/11 Commission Report

Commissioners praise technology ensuring readers will have an easier way to read, hear and visualize the report

Lighthouse Point, FL – In celebration of Veterans Day, AV Books (www.avbooks.com) is releasing The 9/11

Commission Report (Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States),

the “book every American must own,” as an audio-visual book.

“We are releasing this book in this unique format on Veterans Day to honor the tens millions of veterans who have

so valiantly served this country to preserve our freedom,” says George Hay, CEO and founder of AV Books.

Hay believes the report provides readers with the most critical look any citizenry has had on how its government operates and that only a free, democratic government would publish it.

Why publish now when the report was previously released?

AV Books is publishing now because this format expands its availability to tens of millions of more readers, including people with disabilities, because the book has features the printed version lacks, and because the MP3 technology makes the report easier to read the text and footnotes and to carry.

For example, special features in the book include exclusive video interviews with 9/11 Commissioners Jamie S. Gorelick and Richard Ben-Veniste. The commissioners express their personal views on the report and its impact upon America, Congress, the President of the United States and the world.

Speaking in a somber tone, Commissioner Gorelick says, “This book is a critical history of how our government operates. There has never been any book published like this in the history of our country. I am thrilled with the reception we received from the country and doubly pleased to learn that the country is responding to the report’s recommendations.”

In discussing the international impact of the book, she says, “Other countries are reading the book searching for information on ways to protect themselves from terrorists.”

Commissioner Gorelick is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr.

Commissioner Ben-Veniste says, “The 9-11 Commission report is essential for anyone who wants to understand how this tragedy occurred, why our government failed to prevent it, and how we can take steps to better protect our nation from future attacks while still preserving our civil liberties."

Richard Ben-Veniste is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.

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The commissioners are pleased that AV Books technology expands the readership of the book.

“By increasing the number of people who will have access to the report, including people with disabilities, the nation will be stronger and more vigilant in our war against terror,” says Gorelick.

The benefits of AV Books MP3 CD technology are readers receive a complete digital version of the report through which they can interact with audio, text and images. These features also make the book internationally accessible to tens of millions of blind, visually impaired and people with learning disabilities.

Fir portability purposes, with this technology the book can be installed on PC computers, and played on MP3 friendly devices such as iPods™ and DVD Players.

One of the criticisms of the report has been nearly two thousand footnotes in the book and how readers have to go to another book to read the footnotes.

“With Audio Visual Books, readers can click onto the footnote and immediately the footnote can be pulled into the main body of the text and read aloud without the reader losing his place,” says Hay. Another feature is electronic notes can be taken and identified with specific text, print can be enlarged for people with visual impairments, and the background and color can be changed to benefit readers with learning disabilities.

Another criticism has been its thickness. AV Books eliminates this element and makes the book easily portable. Such portability expands the readership of the report and makes it easy to use it as a textbook in history or government classes.

Hay says AV Books technology makes the report a living document because future additions can easily be added by clicking on Future Updates in the Table of Contents and then downloading.

Leaders in the disability community praise the accessibility features of this technology and the goal of the publisher to ensure people with disabilities have access to the report.

“By ensuring people with disabilities have access to the 9/11 Report, the publisher recognizes the right of providing every American access to this report,” says Alan Reich, president of the National Organization on Disability, Washington, DC. NOD’s (www.nod.org) mission is to include America’s 56 million people with disabilities in every aspect in society.

Far from replacing the traditional book, the interactive AudioVisual Book, combined with its sophisticated and advanced digital capabilities, extends the reach of the original book, and effectively brands the book with a new generation of readers both familiar and comfortable with computers and MP3 CD technology.

AV Books utilizes its proprietary AV Book Creator™ software to produce an AudioVisual Book. The technology combines the physical ownership with advance reading technology that will forever change the way people interact with digital books. The AudioVisual Book is the “DVD of the Publishing World” and incorporates the best features of paper, electronic, and the audio books as well as DVD capabilities.

The report sells for $19.95 and will be available in bookstores, airports, on www.amazon.com and through AV Books on www.avbooks.com.

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