"Clickshare is the marketplace pioneer at turning content website visitors into paying customers," said Chris Pizey, uclick COO. "With Clickshare's transaction platform for digital content purchasing and distributed customer management, we can sell features to consumers through our news-industry partners -- rather than around them. It's an extension of the shared-value relationship we have always had with newspapers."

uclick (http://www.uclick.com/) will debut the Clickshare Service™ initially as a mechanism for selling subscription access to premium content attached to user-requested email. Individual consumers using the service will have the option of signing up for it via their local newspaper, which can control the customer relationship and billing. Users will also be able to purchase directly from uclick if they do not have a newspaper "infomediary" sponsor.

"uclick has some of the best content in the world and their newspaper clients have understood for decades the value of shared content," said Nell Fields, president of Clickshare. "Now uclick is taking this concept to the next stage by syndicating features on a fine-grained, user-by-user basis, in addition to the traditional, bulk-subcription print-on-paper approach. Until the Internet and Clickshare, that wasn't possible."

About uclick
uclick is the largest packager and distributor of comics and word games on the Web. uclick is a division of Andrews McMeel Universal. Also under the Andrews McMeel umbrella are Universal Press Syndicate, the largest independent newspaper syndicate in the US, and Andrews McMeel publishing, a leader in book and calendar publishing and gift and stationery merchandising.

According to Mediametrix, the uclick network (which includes www.ucomics.com, www.uexpress.com, www.garfield.com, www.doonesbury.com, and www.uclick.com) ranks in the top 15% of consolidated networks for both length of visit and repeat visitors. Additionally, Forbes.com recently noted uclick.com as one of the "20 Most Visited B2B Sites", and Business 2.0 recently recognized uclick.com as one of the top 10 "Most Increased Traffic".

uclick is the online home to many of the most popular comics and newspaper features, including William F. Buckley, Garfield, Cathy, Universal Crossword Puzzle, Pat Oliphant, Dear Abby, FoxTrot, Doonesbury, News of the Weird, Mary Engelbreit and others. uclick's more than 100 content creators cover the gamut of advice, cartoons and comics, entertainment, games and puzzles, editorial opinion, business and finance, sports, technology, lifestyle and kids. uclick's office is in Kansas City, Mo.

About Clickshare
The Clickshare Service is an Internet transaction infrastructure for privacy-protected purchasing of text, music, video, software, and other products and services. It allows a consumer to have one account at a most-trusted website and buy from other websites without having to pass around a credit-card number, register or give out personal information. To demonstrate the service, Clickshare has set up its own temporary "home base" service at sites.clickshare.com.

Clickshare's clients include Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, Comtex News Network Inc., Hometips.com, ChinaOnline.com, the Corpus Christi [Texas] Caller Times, Foster's Daily Democrat [Dover, N.H.], the Concord [N.H.] Monitor, the Sioux City [Iowa] Journal, the Lawrence [Ks.] Journal-World, Cineman Syndicate, The Bangor [Maine] Daily News and others.

Clickshare maintains engineering and administrative offices in Williamstown, Mass., and Portland, Maine. Its investors include Sawgrass Seacoast Investors LLC and private individuals, including founding executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Sun-Times. Its executives, board and advisors include veterans of the publishing and credit-card industries.

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Chris Pizey, C.O.O., (816) 300-6590 / cpizey@uclick.com
Sherrie Stuckey, Director-Marketing & Sales (816) 300-6558

Clickshare:
Edward Bride 1-413-442-7718 / edbride@clickshare.com
Bill Densmore, 1-877-340-0436 / Densmore@clickshare.com
advisors include veterans of the publishing and credit-card industries.

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