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About Franklin
Franklin Electronic Publishers (Amex: FEP ) is a world leader in electronic
handheld information, having sold more than 32,000,000 electronic books since
1986.

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For over 60 years, FOF has garnered an unparalleled
reputation for producing high -quality, award-winning encyclopedias,
dictionaries, atlases, chronologies, almanacs, biographies and narratives.
Berkery, Noyes' clients include private companies seeking a buyer, and
most of the major international information companies and private equity firms
who use the firm's expertise in locating, analyzing and negotiating with
acquisition candidates and in managing divestitures.

Levitt, Senior Vice President and CFO said, "The retirement of
the Preferred shares should increase common shareholder value by reducing the
dilution of earnings per share resulting from the Preferred Stock. SEIKO is a registered trademark of SEIKO Corporation.

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Known
as the "librarian's librarian ," FOF enjoys a uniquely strong franchise in the
school and library market by publishing core reference titles with great
breadth and depth of coverage in curriculum-based subject areas such as the
social sciences, the natural sciences, U.

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Among the most recent transactions
completed by Berkery, Noyes are the acquisition by The Wicks Group of
DesignWrite, Inc.

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, LLC announced
today that the firm represented Exeter Capital Partners on the sale of its
portfolio company Facts on File ("FOF") to Veronis Suhler Stevenson. After retirement of these
shares, 2,434 Preferred shares remain outstanding with a liquidation value of
$2,434,000.

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Levitt went on to say that "We continue to reduce the number of Preferred
shares outstanding indicating the increasing financial strength of the
Company .

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Its product formats include single and
multi-volume books, online databases, loose-leaf binders and CD-ROMs. and world history, and language
and literature.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed throughout this release, including, but not limited to, those that
are stated as Franklin's belief or expectation or preceded by the word
"should " are forward-looking statements that involve risks to and
uncertainties in Franklin's business, including , among other things, the
timely availability and acceptance of new electronic books and organizers ,
changes in technology, the impact of competitive electronic products, the
management of inventories , Franklin's dependence on third party component
suppliers, manufacturers, and licensors, including those that provide
Franklin-specific parts and those that license specific key titles to
Franklin , and other risks and uncertainties that may be detailed from time to
time in Franklin's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Franklin's products are available at 45,000
retail outlets worldwide, through catalogs, and online at
http://www.

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Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Franklin Electronic Publishers Announces Retirement of 29% of Preferred Shares Outstanding and Provides Revenue Update

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Berkery, Noyes specializes in investment banking for the information,
publishing and communications industries. For more information, visit http://www.berkerynoyes.

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(Amex: FEP) announced today that it retired 29% of its
outstanding Preferred shares for $1,000,000.

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of Multimedia
Healthcare Freedom, the acquisition by CMP/UBM of Cliggott Publishing and The
Oncology Group, the acquisition by Discovery Communications of AIMS
Multimedia, the acquisition by Hanley Wood, LLC of the Annual Trade Show of
the National Roofing Contractors' Association, the sale of the print-assets of
Sheshunoff Information Services to Alex Information and Sheshunoff Insurance
Solutions to Highline Data and Weaver Publications to Prospect Partners, LP.

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Berkery Noyes + Co. LLC Represented Exeter Capital Partners on the Sale of Facts on File to Veronis Suhler Stevenson

Its trademarked logo (box with checkmark) is one of the most recognized brand
images in reference publishing today.

ROLODEX(R) is a registered trademark of Berol Corporation, a subsidiary of
Newell Rubbermaid Inc.

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About Berkery, Noyes + Co., the acquisition by HMP Communications , Inc.J.
Arnold D. Franklin distributes ROLODEX(R) Electronics branded
organizers worldwide and SEIKO branded reference products in North and South
America and Australia and will begin distribution of those products in the
European Community in 2005.com.

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Sale Provides Liquidity to Selling Shareholders , Opportunities for Buyer to
Capitalize on Valuable Franchise

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Founded in 1940, FOF is recognized as one of the leading print and
electronic publishers of general reference materials for the school and
library markets."
Franklin also announced today that revenue of $1,700,000 from its
linguistic technology agreement with Adobe Systems, Inc. The Company also licenses its
underlying technology to an array of partners including Adobe, Ademco (a
division of Honeywell), Macromedia, and Mobile Digital Media (formerly a
division of Palm).

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The firm operates with a
staff of 26 professionals serving the information and publishing industry from
offices in New York. Current titles available directly or through partners number more than
22,000 in sixteen languages under license from world class publishers, such as
Merriam -Webster and HarperCollins, focused in five genres: Learning, Language
Learning, Travel, Spiritual , and Leisure.

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will be recognized in
the first quarter of fiscal 2006 rather than in the year ending March 31,
2005, as previously anticipated.