Atypon

SANTA CLARA, California—January 12, 2010—Atypon Systems, Inc. today announced that the Taylor & Francis Group, one of the leading global academic publishers, has chosen its software to power the next generation of the informaworld™ publishing platform.

The Taylor & Francis Group, which is a division of Informa plc (LSE: INF) and includes such imprints as CRC Press, Psychology Press, and Routledge, publishes more than 1,400 journals and 3,000 new books each year and maintains an e-book backlist of 25,000 titles and a print backlist of 50,000 titles.

Atypon will host the next-generation informaworld™ platform, resulting in significant cost savings to Taylor & Francis, and the platform will be fully integrated with Taylor & Francis’s internal systems, allowing for seamless identity and access management, commerce, and more.

"This partnership is very exciting because it will provide us with greater flexibility in managing and delivering content across our entire portfolio," said Matthew Jay, Chief Technology Officer for the Taylor & Francis Group. "Atypon's software will enable us to provide our customers with more options for discovering and consuming our content, both now and in the future."

"Large publishers demand high performance and increasingly sophisticated tools for managing, delivering, and monetizing their digital content," said Chris Beckett, Vice President of Business Development for Atypon. "Taylor & Francis's selection after a rigorous assessment of the available options is further affirmation that Atypon's software is the best solution for these requirements."

About Atypon

Atypon is a leading provider of software used by professional and scholarly, trade and consumer, and educational publishers of all sizes to manage, deliver, and monetize their digital content. The company's products include complete publishing platforms as well as identity and access management and commerce solutions. For more information, go to www.atypon.com.