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Abstract
[Blish] is a comprehensive online marketplace that enables customers to quickly find and immediately purchase a wide variety of digital content products such as full ebooks, as well as by individual chapters; technical manuals and analysis; legal forms; sound loops; music tracks; digital maps; software and video. In all more than 70,000 digital products are currently offered in the Blish marketplace. Soon, Blish will include audio books, computer games, 3D modeling, motivational seminars, academic lectures, woodworking plans, and PDA applications. A true online marketplace, Blish.com also supports content creators who wish to monetize their work.
Blish's early strategic partners include: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE)- a leading digital rights management solution providing Blish with secure ebook fulfillment; Pearson Prentice Hall (NYSE:PSO)- providing an innovative, chapter-based ebook format across some of their most popular titles, including Financial Times-Prentice Hall, Peachpit Press, Que, and Wharton School Publishing imprints; ElementK - an e-learning provider specializing in software tutorials; Lightning Source - one of the largest consolidators and distributors of secure ebooks in the world; Mercado Software - a powerful merchandising and e-commerce search solution; Maps.com - a leading provider of vector-based mapping images of city, state, county, airports, and countries; and US Legal Forms - offering thousands of professionally-developed legal forms.
The site's intentions are not modest. Blish aims to establish itself as the default source for consumers when they look to purchase any kind of digital content, attracting millions of customers to the site each month. "We see Blish as the destination site for digital purchases, one day offering access to millions of fully searchable digital assets," explains Career Education Corporation's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John Larson. "Like eBay, Blish will provide ease of use, affordability, and accessibility to a vast array of content that has never before been available to the average consumer."