E-Book Systems Chosen to Create Online Digital Version of Fanatics 2010 FIFA World Cup Tour Itineraries and Travel Guides

    SANTA CLARA, CA, June 03, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- E-Book Systems, creator of the patented Digital Flip(R) e-publishing technology, announces Fanatics has adopted its 3-D page-flipping FlipViewer(R) Xpress viewer format for its 2010 FIFA World Cup Tour Itineraries and Travel Guides.

Fanatics run regular jaunts to a wide range of sports and party events around the world, while working closely with the Australian Rugby Union, Cricket Australia, Football Australia, the NRL & ARL, Tennis Australia, the AOC & various other international sporting organizations. With the 2010 FIFA World Cup coming up in June, Fanatics has specially chosen FlipViewer(R) Xpress to deliver its 2010 FIFA World Cup Tour Itineraries and Travel Guides.

"We chose FlipViewer(R) Xpress Creator software because we liked the end product of some of the samples that we saw so we decided to go for it," said Warren Livingstone, Founder and Managing Director of Fanatics.

With E-Book Systems' FlipViewer(R) Xpress solution, readers can now go to http://www.thefanatics.com/fifa_world_cup/index.php and browse through the FlipBook versions of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Tour Itineraries and Travel Guides. In a matter of moments, readers can view the Travel Guides just as they would appear in print -- with real "flipping" pages plus much more.

"Everyone loves the FlipViewer(R) Xpress FlipBook format of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Tour Itineraries and Travel Guides. We have received great feedback from our readers. Our readers found the viewer very easy to use, and we especially like the search facility," said Warren.

In addition to the ease-of-use advantages offered by the Digital Flip(R) technology, the FlipBook brochures enable Fanatics to provide the travelling information to their sports fans at their fingertips without having to compromise the look and feel of the printed brochures.

"We have people travelling with us from around the world so printed brochures don't work for us. We have used PDFs in the past and this FlipBook edition is an extension of that. We have plans to further extend FlipViewer(R) Xpress to our other publications," added Warren.

E-Book Systems' FlipViewer(R) Xpress Creator software enables publishers and corporations to create and publish realistic page-flipping digital publications ("FlipBooks") easily with just a few mouse clicks. The created FlipBook can then be hosted on any web server for online viewing or distributed through any media (e.g. CD, thumb drive, etc.) for offline viewing. The software accepts any PDF, image and Flash documents as inputs. In addition, multimedia elements like audio and video files can be incorporated into the FlipBook to enhance readers' experience. E-Book Systems' optional Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution also helps to safeguard content providers' intellectual properties.

Fanatics joins a growing roster of E-Book Systems' customers listed in http://www.flipviewer.com/flipbooks/. For more information, contact E-Book Systems by phone at (408) 625-8000, via email at [email protected] or visit www.flipviewer.com.

For more information about Fanatics, visit www.thefanatics.com.

About E-Book Systems
E-Book Systems (www.ebooksys.com) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems specializes in providing software tools and services for the e-Publishing market. E-Book System's products make use of its proprietary patented Digital Flip(R) user interface technology to deliver multimedia content and information such as PDF, video, audio, digital image, text, etc. via an impressive 3D Page-Flipping interface, which appears as a virtual FlipBook. These content could be streamed or delivered both online and offline through E-Book's OpenFlip(TM) format.

E-Book Systems, a private on-going corporation, has offices in California (Santa Clara), China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo), Berlin (Germany) and Singapore. Investors include Creative Technology Ltd. and SOFTBANK Creative, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Corp. E-Book Systems' products are distributed worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, China, Japan and Asia Pacific Region.

About Fanatics
Fanatics (www.thefanatics.com) officially began in 1997 with an aim to form an organized, passionate & patriotic support group that would follow Australian Sport at home and around the world. Fanatics have over 88,000 members receive their monthly newsletters & have organized travel for over 47,000 punters. Fanatics still run regular jaunts to a wide range of sports and party events around the world, while working closely with the Australian Rugby Union, Cricket Australia, Football Australia, the NRL & ARL, Tennis Australia, the AOC & various other international sporting organizations. Fanatics now concentrate on two main things; organizing events for like minded Australian sports fans to congregate at the biggest and best sporting events at home and overseas. Fanatics also operate affordable travel options to the world's biggest and craziest festivals and parties, plus annual Anzac commemorations at both Gallipoli & the Western Front.

Fanatics have two full time offices - Sydney, Australia plus London, United Kingdom - both dedicated to ensuring they continue to offer the best range of tours and events anywhere in the world.

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