booktech.com Acquires Certain Assets of Copytron, Inc

Acquisition Adds $1.3 Million to Company's Top Line and Extends booktech.com's
Geographic Coverage

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2000--booktech.com. (AMEX: BTC - news)
today announced that it has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire
certain assets of Copytron, Inc., a highly regarded provider of academic custom
coursepacks and corporate training materials located in Chapel Hill, NC.

Copytron, Inc. was founded in 1981 as a retail quick copy printer, but today
focuses a large part of its business on academic (college "coursepacks") and
corporate training business content. The Company's customers are concentrated in
North Carolina and Virginia and consist of approximately 50 growing private and
public colleges and universities.

"Copytron extends booktech.com's geographic coverage to colleges and
universities in the Southeast United States and provides considerable
opportunities to leverage booktech.com's brand and technology capabilities",
said Dr. Morris A. Shepard, Chairman and CEO of booktech.com. "In addition, the
acquisition of Copytron gives booktech.com entree into the large and fast
growing market for learning materials used in the workplace."

Copytron CEO John Adams III who will work with the booktech.com as a consultant
added, "Joining booktech.com offers us all the opportunity to leap headlong into
the 21st century. We can now offer our clients not only great personal service,
but with web technology, we can deliver our orders at light speed."

booktech.com used a combination of cash and restricted stock to acquire
Copytron, Inc., which had 1999 pro-forma revenue of $1.3 million. booktech.com
expects the Copytron, Inc. acquisition will be earnings accretive in 2000 and
2001. The company also expects the acquisition to be cashflow positive this year
and in the years ahead. The acquisition will also expand booktech.com's content
offerings in the hard sciences, business, economics and nursing.

ABOUT booktech.com

booktech.com (www.booktech.com), headquartered in Woburn, MA, is a 4 1/2 year
old, digital and on-demand publisher of custom textbooks and coursepacks. It is
emerging as a first mover in the emerging E-Education and knowledge management
market. The Company has built a customer base of over 2,500 professors and
students in some 500 American colleges and universities nationwide, ranging from
Harvard University to the University of Alaska. In addition to colleges and
universities, booktech.com has become an important custom publishing resource in
the K-12 market with such noteworthy titles as: Breaking the Spanish Barrier,
Breaking the French Barrier, Trade Routes, and Choices.

This communication may contain certain "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are based
on the beliefs of the Company and its management. When used in this document,
the words "anticipate," "believe,"





"continue," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements
reflect the current view of the Company with respect to future events and are
subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, but not
limited to, the risk that the Company may not be able to implement its growth
strategy in the intended manner, risks regarding currently unforeseen
competitive pressures and technological changes. In addition, the Company's
business, operations and financial condition are subject to the risks,
uncertainties and assumptions which are described in the Company's reports and
statements filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Should one or more of those risks or uncertainties materialize, or should
underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from
those described herein.

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Contact:

     booktech.com
     Stephen Encarnacao, 781/933-5400
              or
     The Investor Relations Group, New York
     Investors:
     Juan Dominguez & Dian Griesel, Ph.D., 212/736-2650