Immediate Release
November 02, 2004

GGS Book Services Acquires Design 5 Creatives (D5C) of
New York, Further Strengthening Services For El-hi Book Market

YORK, PA --- GGS Information Services of 3265 Farmtrail Road, York, PA, has recently announced that Design 5 Creatives (D5C) of New York, NY, has joined their GGS Book Services division.

Design 5 Creatives is regarded within the book publishing industry as a leading innovative design firm for publishers serving the El-hi and college textbook markets.

The move is seen as further expanding the full-service development team of GGS and the wide variety of talented industry professionals now working under the ever-broadening GGS Book Services ‘umbrella’ of content development, design, production, and prepress services.

“D5C, led by Jeannie Friedman and M.E. Morganteen, two well-known design industry veterans, now enhances our seamless, economical one-source solution for El-hi and higher ed publishers working in today’s highly cost-competitive climate,” noted Lloyd Kendall, Executive Vice President of GGS Book Services.

“With D5C and Susan Freeman, their creative director, joining Brian Molloy and Irwin Hahn – who joined GGS at the start of the year - GGS Book Services now has an El-hi development team that is unrivaled in the school textbook industry,” added Kendall. He also noted that the award-winning staff of D5C has a substantial involvement in the design and preparation of textbooks and support materials serving the growing Spanish-language market, efforts headed by Ines Greenberger in its World Languages work group.

A significant amount of future work for the D5C design team will concentrate in those educational fields in which GGS Book Services specializes: reading, mathematics, science, social studies, language arts, literature, test preparation, music, foreign language, and ESL.

The array of support activity available through GGS Book Services now includes high-end page building capabilities using the InDesign® platform from Adobe®, as well as XML development and tagging; Braille® conversion custom publishing; soft proofing, and a full range of composition, creative design, and prepress services.

Offices for Design 5 Creatives will remain at 180 Varick Street in downtown New York City, and their roster of existing clients will remain in place. Offices for GGS Book Services are conveniently located for book publishers also in New York City, with production offices located in York, PA; Atlantic Highlands, NJ; St. Paul, MN; and Chennai, India.

“As part of our ‘Power of One’ business model introduced in February, the new addition of Design 5 Creatives again highlights our interest in always pairing the very best talents in our industry with the latest in state-of-the-art technology and service, all under the GGS banner,” noted Mark Shoemaker, Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for GGS.

For more information about GGS Book Services please contact (866) 758-BOOK or visit their web site at www.ggs-books.com.