Their individual subscription
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HOUSTON, Questia Media, Inc .
Now, website visitors never have to leave a publisher's website to
access or read electronic editions, providing a closer interface with
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Questia Media Partners With Transaction Publishers to License Nearly 1 000 Titles for Online Access

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, the world's largest
online academic library and research service , has partnered with Transaction
Publishers by licensing nearly 1,000 books related to international social
science. Through its many publications, Transaction
promotes mutually beneficial exchanges between academic and professional life.

About Questia
Questia Media, Inc.
Investors include Adams Capital Management, SSM Ventures, Noro-Moseley
Partners, and the New York Times Company .

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"In addition, Questia provides
us with a new revenue stream for our content. Students, instructors , and lifelong learners in more
than 190 countries use Questia's collection of 56,000 full-text, copyrighted
books and nearly one million articles for scholarly research. is the leading digital partner for premier
publishers of newspapers, magazines and other print media and is
included in the eContent magazine list of Top 100 Companies for 2003
and 2004.

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NewsStand's iBrowse reading technology, coupled with iSite
integration, simplifies electronic edition access and provides
contextual linking to online special features.

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A digital toolkit enables researchers to highlight text, properly cite
passages, and automatically generate bibliographies and footnotes.

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Transaction joins more than 250 other top commercial publishers and
university presses, including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University
Press, Perseus Books Group, Taylor + Francis, Greenwood Publishing Group ,
Princeton University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Columbia University Press,
among others, who have licensed their content to the Questia library.
"iSite and iBrowse(R) represent significant steps forward in the
usability of digital publications and their integration into
publishers' web sites," commented Kit Webster, president and chief
executive officer of NewsStand. NewsStand not only offers an
entirely new reading experience for the global community, but also
creates innovative marketing opportunities for both publishers and
advertisers.

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Over the past six months we have added more than 6,300 new volumes of
full-text books and nearly 623,000 articles to our exceptional library," said
Troy Williams, president and CEO of Questia.com

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Publishing Writers/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

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Through Questia, publishers also can benefit from
backlisted and out-of-print titles by licensing them for online use.
"The partnership with Questia allows us to further our company goal of
enhancing public, professional, and scholarly awareness by reaching the widest
possible audience," said Irving Louis Horowitz, chairman of the board and
editorial director of Transaction Publishers. provides the world's largest online academic library
and research resource. The iSite system provides all the
functionality needed to enable electronic edition delivery right from
the home page while retaining the publication brand. A website visitor can subscribe
or purchase a single copy and instantly launch the current edition to
begin reading one article or browse though an entire issue.

About NewsStand, Inc.

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In
addition, publishers' intellectual property is protected from digital
copyright violations since Questia's content is not available for download or
off-line viewing and the books are displayed one page at a time, maintaining
the original pagination .
Transaction offers publications in older, established disciplines such as
economics, political science, history, sociology, anthropology and psychology,
as well as recently established disciplines ranging from area research to
urban studies, policy analysis, philosophy of social science, organizational
behavior and criminology. For more information,
visit http://www. The publication image
and brand are leveraged throughout the reading experience. Currently, the company has over 200 titles under contract
and has delivered over 87 million issues to users in more than 120
countries.

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It regularly rescues important books in all of these fields from
oblivion, and reissues them in new editions with forewords by leading
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Its list now includes the Aldine imprint, which
enhances Transaction's presence in social science and in biological
anthropology.questia. "We will continue to enhance both
services in order to bring added value to both the publisher and the
reader. For more information, please
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About Transaction
Transaction Publishers is widely acknowledged as a major independent
publisher of social scientific books, periodicals and serials.
NewsStand is a privately held company headquartered in Austin,
Texas, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom and New York City.

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which Transaction acquired in July 2004.
"As Questia continues to expand, we are pleased to offer these new titles.

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Located on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway , New Jersey,
Transaction has strong ties to the traditional mission of American university
life as a center of learning, and to applied needs of public and private
institutions in social research . In
addition, Questia provides a personalized workspace for each user, complete
with an individual bookshelf and reference resources.
Founded in 1998, Questia Media is based in Houston.newsstand .

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Transaction's
mission is scholarly and professional inquiry into the nature of society.
Questia 's unlimited, 24/7 access allows researchers to simultaneously use
every item in its online, scholarly library from any connected corner of the
world. NewsStand's digital delivery solution makes it possible for
subscribers to access an entire publication in traditional print
format on their desktop or laptop.

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Nearly 700 of these titles are new to the Questia collection while
the others had been previously licensed to Questia by Aldine de Gruyter, Inc.

Contact: Wendy Dunn
Richards /Gravelle
214-891-5743
wendy_dunn@richards.,
the leading distributor of exact digital replicas of newspapers and
magazines throughout the world, unveiled a new web integration
platform, called iSite(TM), that transforms a publication website into
a portal for electronic editions.

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Questia's innovative business model, which is based on individual
subscriptions , provides a new revenue stream for publishers, as well as a new
channel of distribution. Designed for use by
educators and students to enhance curricula, the Questia service also includes
the Questia Classroom, a teacher/student resource center that incorporates the
digital library content with class instruction.
713-358-2658
ssullivan@questia.