May 11, 2007

Planetwide Media and Lulu.com Announce Direct Digital Publishing Solution for Comic Book Creator Software and HyperComics.com

Aliso Viejo, Calif. - Planetwide Media, maker of interactive personalized media software, and Lulu.com, an online marketplace for printing and publishing their content, entered into a strategic partnership and agreement enabling Comic Book Creator users to create and publish their personalized comic books, storybooks, or yearbooks in a professional-looking physical book format using Lulu.com's direct digital printing technology.
Users will soon be able to log onto www.HyperComics.com, use Planetwide Media's Comic Book Creator software, and then print and publish their authentic-looking comic book creations to www.Lulu.com. Creators of comic books, video, periodicals, multimedia, and other digital content can now publish their own user-generated content with complete editorial and copyright control by using Lulu.com technology as a platform to sell and market their creations.
 
Planetwide Media's Comic Book Creator is a personalized media software platform. Its suite of design tools embrace user-generated content and enable comic book fans to import their own digital content and officially licensed assets from Planetwide's global partners' IP to create their own personalized comic books. Users can drag and drop images, backgrounds, artwork, animated GIFs, audio clips, logos, icons, tag lines, symbols, and clip art into a selection of more than 500 different layout and design templates. The completed creations can then be posted to blogs or social networks, e-mailed to friends, printed in comic book format, or published to Planetwide's comic fans online social network at www.HyperComics.com.