Dead End Street Enters Into Cross Platform
Development Deal With Lightning Source

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE HOQUIAM, WA – May 31, 2000: Dead End Street^SM is pleased to announce a cross platform development deal with industry leader Lightning Source, Inc., whereby selected Dead End Street^SM ebooks will be available as top quality softback titles. The first Dead End Street^SM ebook available in print will be the fast selling novel A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, an offering that will debut in bookstores worldwide beginning early July 2000. Other fast selling Dead End Street^SM products will follow, including GABRIELLA’s VOICE.

"We are excited about the print-on-demand deal we’ve negotiated with Lightning Source," says Dead End Street^SM CIO Ivan R. Black. "Clearly, Lightning Source is without equal in the POD market. And, as the best epublisher, we prefer to deal with other companies that excel in their respective markets."

About Lightning Source:

Lightning Source provides on-demand printing and distribution services to selected members of the book publishing industry. Known as "The Digital Content Connection" by publishers and retailers alike, Lighting Source has printed more than 800,000 books for 600 of the best publishers in the world.

About Dead End Street:

Dead End Street^SM LLC is a multimedia publishing firm founded in 1997. Based upon the fundamental precept that more speech is preferable to less, the company is a forum for literary works considered outside the mainstream. Visit the Dead End Street^SM homepage at www.deadendstreet.com and discover for yourself why so many people have decided to "Take a ride down the Dead End Street^SM."