Fatbrain.Com Customers Gain Access to Trainseek.Com Training Offerings

September 20, 2000

Salt Lake City, UT - September 20, 2000 - In a move that takes advantage of the synergistic strengths of a leading e-marketplace for corporate training products and services and a leader in Web-based information management for businesses, TrainSeek.com announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Fatbrain.com(TM) (Nasdaq: FATB). TrainSeek.com has developed a co-branded Web site with Fatbrain.com that provides Fatbrain.com's existing customer base access to the full range of TrainSeek.com's training products and services.

Fatbrain.com's online Learning Marketplace, accessible to more than 3.5 million users in almost 350 of the Fortune 1000 companies, is a single destination for finding and purchasing knowledge resources. In a move to offer best-of-breed training resources to the company's corporate customers, Fatbrain.com features TrainSeek.com's training materials on the new co-branded site.

"As the leading aggregator of corporate training products and services, this new strategic partnership provides TrainSeek.com with immediate access to a large, incremental market audience of already-registered Fatbrain.com training customers," said Gary Crocker, chairman and chief executive officer of TrainSeek.com.

The new co-branded Web site will give Fatbrain.com's customers the opportunity to easily find and purchase a wide array of training products, such as online courses, videotapes, CD-ROMs, or instructor-led seminars in addition to Fatbrain.com's vast selection of information resources.

"Fatbrain.com has done a terrific job of aggregating and merchandising professional and technical information resources," said Rob Chipman, president of TrainSeek.com. "Now we'll be able to help them quickly offer a wider range of training products and services while they continue to focus on the information management needs of businesses."

This new co-branded site will incorporate all of TrainSeek.com's functionality, including its powerful search capabilities, the ability to preview many products online without having to download large files, the availability of both professional and peer-to-peer critiques of training products, and the capability for online purchasing.

"Businesses today face many challenges, foremost among these challenges is the process of providing the best training resources available to a company's workforce that ultimately will add to the bottom-line," said Dan Rush, vice president and general manager of products and sales for Fatbrain.com. "We partnered with TrainSeek.com to enable us to provide a vast selection of training resources to our corporate customers and to individual consumers. Our Learning Marketplace is a destination site for businesses and individuals that are looking to expand their expertise using the best training resources and educational opportunities available."

About Trainseek.com

TrainSeek.com's slogan says it all: "Find, Preview, Compare, and Buy Training. Fast." TrainSeek.com is an online marketplace that enables training buyers to find products easily, preview and compare the products online, and read relevant independent reviews before they buy. Offering the full spectrum of training products from soft skills to safety, information technology to human resources, TrainSeek.com has aggregated content from the leading suppliers of online courses, videos, books, manuals, instructor-led seminars, CD-ROM, software, training aids and more. The company's target market is training buyers in business, manufacturing, government, health care, and education.

TrainSeek.com is a trademark of TrainSeek, Inc., Utah corporation. TrainSeek.com can be reached through www.trainseek.com or at 295 Chipeta Way, 1st Floor, University of Utah Research Park, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, 1-888-779-3030.

About Fatbrain.Com

Fatbrain.com helps organizations capitalize on business information and professionally published materials by streamlining its management and distribution, enabling delivery in digital and/or hardcopy format directly into the hands of employees, partners and customers. Fatbrain.com's easy-to-use, comprehensive Information Exchange service offering allows organizations to easily publish and offer access to professional and business materials when, where and how the recipient wants it via an online information resource center. Today, the company's Web-based information management services reach more than 3.5 million desktops at almost 350 of the Fortune 1000 corporations worldwide. Visit Fatbrain.com on the Web at http://www.fatbrain.com.