IPSWICH, Mass. - November 7, 2006 - EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and COIN Educational Products (COIN) today announce that the companies have finalized an agreement whereby EBSCO acquired the high school career guidance product line from COIN. As a result of this agreement, applicable COIN products including COIN Career Library, COIN Career Community, and Coin Career Guidance, will be hosted and supported by EBSCO. COIN will remain the owner and provider of its own line of materials pertaining to K-8 career guidance and educational planning.

COIN products have become staples for guidance counselors and career centers across the United States. The products provide intuitive, informative tools for students and advisors to delve into self-assessment as it relates to career and higher education planning, and to gather detailed information on the specific careers and institutions that match their skills, interests, etc.

EBSCO is the leading provider of reference and research databases for schools, public libraries, universities and other institutions around the world. As such, these products fit in very well with EBSCO suite of offerings. According to Mark Herrick, Vice President of Business Development for EBSCO, the company sees these career solution products as a perfect complement to its growing suite of databases. "COIN has done a remarkable job of developing top resources in the areas of career and higher education planning. EBSCO is in a position to further expand upon the in-roads made by COIN, and provide these resources to support and enhance the databases currently available from EBSCO." Herrick continued, "These resources offer great benefits to the institutions and end users in high schools, two-year colleges, as well as public libraries. We are confident that these new additions to our product suite will be well-received." EBSCO intends to continue to enhance the career resources moving forward.

About the COIN Products Now Owned by EBSCO
Coin Career Library offers students, counselors, teachers, and parents a centralized location to work together on career guidance. This product brings together the proven reliability and ease of the Coin Career Guidance system, and the accessibility of the Internet, to make quick and easy-to-use career exploration and planning available to students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With all users at one site sharing one login, this product is a perfect match for the career and curriculum needs of libraries and career centers.

Coin Career Community combines the proven reliability and ease of the Coin Career Guidance System with the accessibility of the Internet to make students' career exploration and planning available 24 hours a day. The Coin Career Community offers students, counselors, teachers, and parents a centralized location to work together on career guidance, with user interfaces tailored to the differing needs of various users.

Coin Career Guidance is a CD-ROM program used by thousands of students nationwide to explore careers and plan for the future. Whether a single student is researching a college, or a full class of students is drafting career goals, this comprehensive system provides necessary career and college information in a user-friendly environment.

COIN Educational Products will retain the following products: CLIMB, CLUE, Career Targets, Career Targets Online, Coin Jr., Individual Career Planning Portfolios, Basic Skills, and Coin Educational Inventory. Information regarding COIN Educational Products and its resources can be found at: www.coinedu.com.

About EBSCO
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 200 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company's product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source^®, CINAHL^®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList^®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, MEDLINE^®, MLA International Bibliography, PsycARTICLES^® and PsycINFO^®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: http://www.ebscohost.com, or contact EBSCO Publishing.

EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.