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Safe online community encourages children to read and write about books

Emeryville, CA – June 05, 2006 – Lithium Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand customer community solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by Scholastic to power their interactive online community for children.

"We wanted to create a safe online environment where children could exchange ideas about the books they are reading," said Tami Mount, Executive Producer of Scholastic.com. "Our online community provides children with an exciting opportunity to read and write about the books they enjoy. As a peer-to-peer environment, Lithium's community technology provided the medium we were looking for to encourage children to share their love of reading."

"This is yet another innovative way in which our technology is being used to create a online communities," said Lithium CEO Michel Thouati. "We are thrilled that the world's leading publisher and distributor of children's books chose our technology for their children's community, and we look forward to supporting their efforts to improve the reading and writing skills of our nation's children."

About Lithium Technologies

Lithium Technologies provides market-leading solutions for building successful online communities. Lithium's solutions enable clients to increase brand loyalty, sales, and customer satisfaction while decreasing customer care costs. Clients include Cingular, Forbes, Sony, Scholastic.com, Nokia, and Dell. Lithium is privately held with headquarters in Emeryville, CA. For more information, visit www.lithium.com or call 510-653-6800.

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Michael Paige, Corporate Headquarters & Global, michael.paige@lithium.com , +1 (510) 318 7014
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Prelini Chiechi, UK & Northern Europe, prelini.chiechi@lithium.com, +44 (7826) 912788
Imogen Riley, APAC & Australia, imogen.riley@lithium.com, +61 413 274 210