Blish.com Offers Innovative Online Marketplace for Digital Content; Career Education Corporation Subsidiary Adds New Dimension To Company's Online Offerings

Leveraging the digital enterprise model and the growingmicro-commerce market, two of the most explosive drivers in e-commercetoday, Blish adds new innovation to successful models such as Apple'siTunes and Amazon -- which collectively rewrote the rules for theonline sale of music and books. Utilizing Blish's powerful andeasy-to-use portal, owners of digital content post their content forsale in real time, control the price for each item, and collectroyalties from sales automatically.

"Blish answers the most critical need in today's digital economy,"explains Nick Fluge, Chief Visionary Officer of Career EducationCorporation (CEC), "by connecting purchase-minded consumers to one ofthe richest and least utilized resources - the hundreds of millions offully produced digital assets currently not offered for sale."

Blish is a comprehensive online marketplace that enables customersto quickly find and immediately purchase a wide variety of digitalcontent products such as full ebooks, as well as by individualchapters; technical manuals and analysis; legal forms; sound loops;music tracks; digital maps; software and video. In all more than70,000 digital products are currently offered in the Blishmarketplace. Soon, Blish will include audio books, computer games, 3Dmodeling, motivational seminars, academic lectures, woodworking plans,and PDA applications. A true online marketplace, Blish.com alsosupports content creators who wish to monetize their work.

Blish's early strategic partners include: Adobe Systems(NASDAQ:ADBE)- a leading digital rights management solution providingBlish with secure ebook fulfillment; Pearson Prentice Hall (NYSE:PSO)-providing an innovative, chapter-based ebook format across some oftheir most popular titles, including Financial Times-Prentice Hall,Peachpit Press, Que, and Wharton School Publishing imprints; ElementK- an e-learning provider specializing in software tutorials; LightningSource - one of the largest consolidators and distributors of secureebooks in the world; Mercado Software - a powerful merchandising ande-commerce search solution; Maps.com - a leading provider ofvector-based mapping images of city, state, county, airports, andcountries; and US Legal Forms - offering thousands ofprofessionally-developed legal forms.

The site's intentions are not modest. Blish aims to establishitself as the default source for consumers when they look to purchaseany kind of digital content, attracting millions of customers to thesite each month. "We see Blish as the destination site for digitalpurchases, one day offering access to millions of fully searchabledigital assets," explains Career Education Corporation's Chairman andChief Executive Officer, John Larson. "Like eBay, Blish will provideease of use, affordability, and accessibility to a vast array ofcontent that has never before been available to the average consumer."

Visit http://www.blish.com to review our growing marketplace.

About Career Education Corporation

Career Education Corporation (www.careered.com), through itscolleges, schools and universities, offers quality higher education tomore than 100,000 students both on-campus and online in a variety ofcareer-oriented disciplines. CEC reports and discusses its operatingresults in two separate segments: the Colleges, Schools andUniversities segment, which represents the results of the campusesproviding education on-ground, and the Online Education Group, whichrepresents the results of its campuses providing education online.

The Colleges, Schools and Universities segment includes more than70,000 students attending one of 80-plus campuses owned by CEC. Theon-ground campuses are located throughout the U.S., Canada, France,the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates and offer doctoraldegree, master's degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, anddiploma programs in the career-oriented disciplines of businessstudies, visual communication and design technologies, healtheducation, information technology, and culinary arts.

The Online Education Group segment includes more than 30,000students attending the web-based virtual campuses of either AmericanInterContinental University Online or Colorado Technical UniversityOnline. The online campuses of these two universities collectivelyoffer a variety of degrees in information technology, computerscience, business, visual communication, health sciences, criminaljustice, and education.

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