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Wireless Ink Launches 'Books on Phones' Service, Provides Mobile Access to Creative Commons Library
Published: Tue, 28 Dec 2004, 04:10 EDT
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By Aria C. Munro
Staff Writer, Publishers Newswire
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COLD SPRING HARBOR, NY -- MaxPlanet Corp. (OTC Pink Sheets: MXNT) announces its acquisition company, Wireless Ink (www.wirelessink.com), is among the first to enable the rapid publishing and distribution of books on mobile devices through its patent-pending technology and platform. The Creative Commons Library is the first in a series of works to be published on the WINKsite Mobile Publishing and Community Platform.
WINKsite extends the power of publishing and distributing mobile books to the masses. At the moment, the tools used are offered free of charge to individuals and non-profit organizations for non-commercial use.
On your mobile device, simply go to Winksite.com and select the "Featured Books" channel, to access the "Books on Phones" service.
For PC access, go to www.winksite.com and click on "Featured Books."
Bill Munch, president of Wireless Ink, LLC, said, "Currently, revenue models are being studied, and discussions with publishers and authors are underway. Revenue streams may come from monthly subscriptions, revenue sharing, advertising and others. The market potential is 1.5 billion mobile phones and growing."
About MaxPlanet Corp.
The company was incorporated in 1982 in the State of Delaware and is currently listed on the Pink Sheets under ticker symbol "MXNT" (OTC MXNT.pk). During the corporate restructuring in recent months, MaxPlanet has been seeking strategic acquisition targets.
About Wireless Ink, LLC
Wireless Ink(tm) provides the most advanced mobile website publishing platform available today. Wireless Ink allows users to create, maintain and update mobile websites within minutes and view them on their mobile phones, PDAs or other mobile devices. During the current product development and testing phase, the company hosts approximately 6,000 mobile web sites.
To date this year, the mobile portal has experienced over 100 million mobile screen views.
The WINKsite software product is a server-based system accessed via a simple Web interface. It allows anyone to create and maintain mobile web sites without the need to locate a host, know design or have technical experience. Using WINKsite, an ordinary person can create a new mobile site that will be visible on Web-enabled phones in less than 60 seconds.
By implementing business models based on Web site creation and hosting, organizations like Yahoo! and Geocities have brought the concept of personal publishing control to ordinary people. WINKsite brings this successful concept to the Mobile Internet.
More information is available at www.wirelessink.com and www.winksite.com.
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