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| PhotoAccess News Major European Digital Camera Distributor, Digital Dream Teams With PhotoAccess To Provide Consumers Complete Digital Photo Services SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 28, 2001 PhotoAccess.com™ Corporation, the leading Internet retail Applications Service Provider (ASP) of digital camera photo finishing solutions, has been selected by Digital Dream Co., the exclusive distributor of Microtek digital cameras for Europe, to provide comprehensive online digital photo management, storage and eCommerce services under the Digital Dream brand. Digital Dream will also bundle photo-printing services, including 12 free prints, with their cameras, under the agreement. Digital Dream, which has retail agreements representing over 2,000 points of presence in eight countries, is engaging PhotoAccess to incorporate its seamless functionality into the www.digitaldreamco.com Web site. Planned for availability in May, users of the service will have the ability to download a free copy of PhotoStreamer™ software, which allows them to manage digital photos on a PC/Mac desktop, and automatically upload them to the Digital Dream Web site where they can store pictures permanently, free of charge. From the Web site, users can create personal, as well as guest albums, and order high quality and custom sized prints for delivery at home. In addition to offering Digital Dream's online customers convenient digital photo finishing services, the arrangement provides for PhotoAccess and Digital Dream to create privately branded Web sites, on request, for their retail partners which include Dixons, Tesco, Media Mart, FNAC, Comet, and Jessups. Jerry Barber, president and CEO of PhotoAccess said, "This agreement represents how easy it is for PhotoAccess to integrate our photo finishing infrastructure into partner's Web sites anywhere in the world. We are pleased and excited to be working with Digital Dream. They represent the future of digital camera usage in Europe." "We sell thousands of digital cameras a week through our retail partners," said Christine MacSween, managing director of Digital Dream. "By adding a photo finishing solution, and offering coupons for low-priced digital prints in every camera box, we expect to hasten camera adoption and significantly improve the out-of-box experience for the consumer. PhotoAccess has the components and ability to offer private branding and great services-they're an ideal technology and e-commerce partner for us and our retail outlets."
About Digital Dream Digital Dream Co. is one of the fastest growing companies in the European digital camera market. The company sells and distributes entry-level digital cameras under the digitaldream® brand to over 2,000 key retail outlets in eight countries. Leading retailers choose Digital Dream for its superior support, merchandising, price protection and policy that provides immediate credit for returned merchandise. digitaldream cameras provide still and video clip capture and come complete with cables, batteries, and powerful software for online image storage and management. Prices range from $35-$159 (US); each camera comes with a full twelve-month replacement guarantee. Consumers can turn to www.digitaldreamco.com for technical support, tips, and free software upgrades.
About PhotoAccess Founded in 1998, PhotoAccess.com is the leading Internet retail Applications Service Provider of digital camera, photo finishing solutions benefiting retailers, professional photographers and consumers. In three weeks, businesses can have an integrated, flexible, branded, and cost-effective e-commerce Web site, hosted by PhotoAccess.com, that offers consumers exceptional digital photo prints and merchandise, online image management, permanent storage, ordering, and delivery options. PhotoAccess also provides customization and licenses its technologies to a variety of photographic, electronic, Web and software development companies. PhotoAccess.com is privately held, funded through venture capital firms, and has offices in Seattle, Washington, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information visit www.photoaccess.com or the Japanese Web site at www.photoaccess.co.jp.
Press Contact: Mark Waldin Trish Horner Christine MacSween |
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