Thursday October 29, 8:09 am Eastern Time
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Software Remedies for Holiday Stress
Halloween Screen Savers, Gourmet Cooking Suite Are Holiday Helpers
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1998--Anyone anxious about the upcoming holidays can relax: Software remedies from
Beyond.com are guaranteed to ease the holiday stress felt by anyone with a valid credit card who can handle a few strokes on a keyboard.
For procrastinating parents still searching for Halloween costume ideas for their kids, Lights Out Halloween Funky Screen Saver ($9.95) features six of the
funkiest and most colorful Halloween characters ever seen: Dracula, Crazy Lady, Bart the Bat, Green Bones, and Hillary the Wacked-out Witch. Best of all,
many software titles from Beyond.com can be downloaded instantaneously over the Internet.
For newlyweds in agony over what to serve their parents on Thanksgiving, Gourmet Cooking Suite by MULTIMEDIA 2000 ($31.45) offers hundreds of
gastronomical delights and secrets from such food experts as Julia Child and the editors of Food and Wine magazine. The software includes how-to videos
that teach expert chef's skills, printable recipes and shopping guides and a wine database with more than 40,000 selections.
Holiday overachievers can choose from a host of wild and wonderful software packages to aid them this holiday. For this year's Christmas card, forget
squirming children straddling a strange Santa's lap. CreataCard Plus from American Greetings ($19.95) features 3,500 greeting cards, including a new
selection of Add-A-Photo cards directly from a scanner or digital camera. The software includes labels, gift tags, customized messages and 50 greeting card
fonts.
For fastidious and budget-conscious holiday planners, Christmas Between Friends demo v2.1 by Blue Ribbon Software is available for electronic download
for free from beyond.com.
This software helps keep accurate records of cards and gifts sent and received, update the address book, save time printing labels to friends and family,
make personal notes (''Dave likes fruit cake'', ''Size 6 dress'' or ''honeymoon in Bermuda'') and print Christmas shopping lists. Most importantly,
Christmas Between Friends is grandmother-tested.
''Unscientific studies show that buying software over the Internet through Beyond.com potentially can relieve millions of Americans of holiday stress,''
said Brian Sroub, vice-president of marketing at Beyond.com who plans to buy most of his Christmas gifts this year from Beyond.com.
''People can shop from the convenience of home or office without fighting crowds or searching for the perfect parking space -- buying right up to the last
minute products that can be instantly delivered. Plus our software reviews and recommendations make holiday shopping simple and fun.''
Beyond.com features more than 33,000 software titles (stock-keeping units or SKUs), from the engaging to the bizarre. For hard-to-shop-for teens, Dragon
Systems Inc. features ''Dragon Naturally Speaking for Teens'' ($52.95) which lets restless teenagers dictate, edit and format homework assignments,
letters and emails on the Internet.
''Monster Truck Madness V2.0'' by Microsoft ($41.95) lets the adventurous burn tread and smash bumpers with four different monster trucks. Tech-savvy
girls aged 6 and up will delight in ''Barbie Cool Looks Fashion Designer'' from Mattel Media ($41.45) which lets children design fashions for Barbie and
her friends.
Outdoor enthusiasts will delight in ''Redneck Rampage Possum Bayou'' from Interplay ($13.95) which features dynamites, guns and aliens in UFOs on a
3D romp through Hickston, USA.
About Beyond.com
Beyond.com sells commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government enterprise, corporate and consumer markets, offering its customers a better way to
buy software. Visitors to the company's online store (http://www.beyond.com) enjoy a comprehensive selection of software backed by customer service
and competitive pricing.
Approximately 30,000 software stock-keeping units (SKUs) are available for online purchase with more than 3,300 SKUs available for immediate,
electronic delivery, including software from such major publishers as Adobe, Lotus, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Symantec. The company has
established strategic marketing alliances with America Online, Inc., Excite, Inc. and Netscape Communications Corporation.
Additionally, Beyond.com offers publishers transaction processing, physical and electronic order fulfillment, customer support, site design consultation,
marketing support and reporting. Beyond.com is incorporated in Delaware as software.net Corporation. Software.net Corporation has applied for federal
registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and SOFTWARE.NET. Beyond.com trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol (''BYND'').
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about software.net's (Beyond.com's) expectations about the company's business in the fourth
quarter of 1998 and beyond, or plans to grow the company's customer base, these statements are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to substantial risks and
uncertainties. Actual results for the fourth quarter of 1998 and subsequent quarters could differ materially from any future performance suggested above.
Among the factors that could affect subsequent periods include: Reductions in or cancellations of customer orders, changes in relationships with software
suppliers, changes in relationships with strategic partners, changes in the product mix sold by the company, competition from other online software resellers
or publishers, inability to raise sufficient capital on satisfactory terms, or at all, and other factors described in the company's prospectus dated June 17,
1998, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (''SEC''). Beyond.com news and product/service information is available at the company's
World Wide Web site located at beyond.com
Contact:
Beyond.com
Lise Olson, 408/616-4256 (PR)
liseo@beyond.com
or
Laura Dayton, 408/616-4328 (IR)
laurad@beyond.com
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