Digital River Handles Online Software Sales and Downloads for ARTS PDF
Offers ARTS PDF software through its oneNetwork online sales channel
MINNEAPOLIS, September 21, 2005 -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced it is providing international e-commerce support for ARTS PDF, a leading developer of PDF tools for PDF professionals. Based on the agreement, Digital River built and launched ARTS PDF’s global online stores located at www.artspdf.com and www.nitropdf.com. In addition to hosting the sites, which display in 11 languages and currencies, Digital River is processing online order transactions, digitally delivering the company’s popular, award-winning PDF software, and providing fraud prevention screening and customer service support.
“As an e-commerce outsourcer, Digital River acts as an e-commerce department, helping companies open online sales channels, expand into international markets, and grow their customer bases,” said Dave Alampi, Digital River’s vice president of marketing. “By leveraging the e-commerce expertise we’ve acquired during the past decade, we have developed best practice strategies for building and growing global online businesses while mitigating operational risk and complexity.”
In addition to managing the ARTS PDF online stores, Digital River is making ARTS PDF software available for sale on hundreds of online retail, content and portal sites in the Digital River oneNetwork™ online sales channel. oneNetwork provides Digital River clients the opportunity to generate increased visibility and incremental sales for their products through indirect sales programs.
“Outsourcing our e-commerce operations to Digital River has helped us expand our direct and indirect online sales opportunities,” said Gary Armstrong, vice president of sales for ARTS PDF. “By working with the company, we have been able to open new revenue streams while we continue focusing on our core competency of developing leading-edge PDF software. We look forward to working with Digital River to market our products through our international online stores and oneNetwork.”
About ARTS PDF
ARTS PDF has been developing software and custom solutions focusing on Adobe® Acrobat® and PDF since 1997 and today has operations spanning North America, Europe and Australia. The advanced range of ARTS PDF tools extends the power of Adobe Acrobat, making it easier for businesses to publish PDF documents efficiently and consistently. The company's software is used by thousands of business, technical, print production and creative professionals.
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as London and Cologne, Germany. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
Digital River is a registered trademark and oneNetwork is a trademark of Digital River, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.
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