Texterity will provide fully automated conversion of existing PDF files into OEB (Open eBook), and will also create high-quality versions for the Microsoft Reader, Rocket eBook, and Gemstar Softbook. This will enable GiantChair.com to distribute its publishers' eBooks through all major retailers and via affiliate and publishers' websites. GiantChair.com will be able to quickly, easily, and economically make its titles available in all industry-leading eBook formats today, and also have the ability to create print-on-demand versions from the richly-tagged XML.

Cory McCloud, CEO of GiantChair.com stated, "By partnering with Texterity, we can achieve our goal of fully automating the entire process of book production, including conversion, e-commerce, and fulfillment. This agreement allows us to focus on promoting our publishers' books and finding new ways of bringing quality literary works to new readers in new forms."

"We think that GiantChair.com provides a valuable service to the thousands of publishers who want to outsource their electronic publishing needs," said Martin Hensel, President of Texterity. "We are pleased to work with GiantChair.com, who appreciates the value of our high-quality automated conversion as a part of their comprehensive offerings."

The GiantChair.com agreement adds to Texterity's extensive list of customers using Texterity's Internet-based, outsourced services. TextCafe is the industry's first fully automated PDF to XML conversion system. TextCafe uses expert systems and proprietary recognition processes to deduce and make explicit the structure that is implied by original formatting, allowing direct conversion from PDF to XML, HTML, and Open eBook format.

GiantChair.com, created in 2000 by the team who helped make France's 00h00.com (recently acquired by Gemstar) the world's first online trade publisher, offers independent publishers immediate entry into the eBook and print-on-demand marketplace. In addition to distributing its publishers' eBooks through a constellation of retail outlets and affiliate sites, GiantChair.com provides publisher websites with customized catalog and e-commerce tools to handle direct orders of eBooks, print-on-demand and stock alike. GiantChair also draws on over 40 years of trade publishing experience to offer familiar distributor services such as sales and promotion to its distribution clients, and aids publishers in repackaging and repurposing their content for eBook and online readerships. GiantChair.com distributes several noted independent publishers, including New York's Arcade Publishing and Seven Stories Press, Boston's Zoland Books, and several others.

Founded in 1991, Texterity is a leading provider of ePublishing services enabling fast, cost-effective automated transformation of published pages into multiple electronic formats. Texterity relieves the major bottleneck in electronic publishing today, which is to repurpose PDF-based content. Texterity's services provide solutions for the ePublishing lifecycle, including automated conversion of existing content into XML, HTML, eBook, Wireless, and Print. Texterity provides services to leading publishing, catalog, eBook, portal, and corporate customers including Penguin Putnam, Prentice Hall, Thomson Learning, Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt General, World Book, Perot Systems, Lycos, Fisher Scientific, Reader's Digest and Gartner Group.