Oak Brook, IL and Carrollton, TX -- September 27, 2001. Journey Education Marketing, North America's leading source for discounted academic software, has announced a partnership with the Follett Higher Education Group to create a software estore for its efollet.com Web site.

According to Mike Fischler, president and CEO of Journey, students shopping for software at efollett.com will now have access to more than 6,000 software titles at discounts of up to 75 percent. efollett.com provides products and services to more than 680 Follett managed college bookstores. The Web site services over 4 million students and 300,000 faculty in North America.

Says Fischler, "Follett is a leader in its field and we're pleased to be able to team with them to offer students a highly accessible way to purchase discounted academic software."

For Gary Shapiro, Sr. Vice President of Intellectual Properties with Follett, the partnership with Journey is a win-win one. "Journey's excellent reputation for customer service coupled with the depth of product they offer provides our students an academic edge by enabling them to purchase online the latest software in their fields at very accessible prices," says Shapiro.

Follett Higher Education Group is the leading contractor of bookstore services and the foremost supplier of used books in North America. In addition to providing more than 680 campuses with bookstore services, Follett also serves more than 1,500 independent campus stores with its wholesale services, and has the most visited ecommerce Web site, efollett.com, that provides serves and products through a network of more than 900 campuses. For additional information on Follett visit http://www.fheg.follett.com.

Journey Education Marketing, Inc. is the leading multi-channel software marketer to the post-secondary academic market that includes students, faculty, staff and educational institutions. Journey offers more than 6,000 academic software and technology products through over 1,000 managed estores at deep discounts to verified academic buyers. For more information on Journey, visit http://www.JourneyEd.com.