Pelican Software (BC), Inc. and Yearbooks! Desktop return print control to the publisher.

Nanaimo, BC, Canada – August 20th, 2008

Pelican Software (BC), Inc. releases the 2009 Edition of its Yearbooks! Desktop software - designed specifically for Publishers, Printers and Photography businesses to control the printing of school yearbooks.

Unlike all of our competitors, we provide a feature rich yearbook creation tool and our clients are free to print the books wherever and however they'd like" says Don Power, Sales Manager of Pelican Software.

As high quality digital presses are becoming more and more affordable and schools are increasingly looking for alternatives to long term publishing contracts, the timing has never been better for independent businesses to thrive in the high margin, high volume yearbook publishing market. Yearbooks! Desktop is currently used to print over 125 MILLION pages per year!

Pelican Software is committed to helping the industry keep the yearbook tradition alive.

Then students want a yearbook, a Website or CD alone won’t do, said a Newbury Park sophomore. “A yearbook is tangible”, he said. “You can hand it to somebody.”

With a continually expanding list of partners such as FujiFilm USA, Memory Book Company, Marathon Press and Strawbridge Studios, Pelican Software is a proven leader in the yearbook production industry.

Yearbooks! Desktop 2009 makes it even easier to produce a yearbook with significantly enhanced new tools such as:

• Cover Designer – Offers custom yearbook covers to your users, which will increase print revenue!
• Activity Page Templates – Import, organize and design more pages with candid photographs!
• Double Page Spread – Proof multiple pages simultaneously, increase production and reduce project time!

“Yearbooks! Desktop 2009 looks great! I love all of the new features. I also love the Images tab…I think it will save us a LOT of time!” said Shannon at Memory Book Company.

Printing shops of any size now have access to the easiest way to enter the yearbook production market thanks to Pelican Software's Yearbooks! Desktop.

It’s as easy as Click>Print>Profit!

Coming soon…Pelican Software will be releasing YO!-the newest way to build your Yearbook Online. 

With this new product, users will not only be able to lay out an entire yearbook within a matter of minutes, they will also be able to collaborate with each other through chat, photo sharing, and other social networking functions to build a yearbook community.

YO! is an ideal product for yearbook publishing, printing and school photography businesses.  Businesses offer YO! to their clients in return for their high volume, high margin print and photography contracts. And the best part is that yearbook revenues repeat every year!

The world wide launch for this product is scheduled for release September 2008.  To learn more, visit www.buildayo.com , or call Don Power, Sales Manager for Pelican Software -1.800.988.4880 ext 105.

Pelican Software Partners with FujiFilm USA - Introduces New Revenue Stream for DocuColor Customers

Pelican Software (BC) Inc. is proud to provide a new profit center for customers of Xerox digital printers. Pelican Software's memory book software suite - Yearbooks! and Books! allow FujiFilm USA customers to distribute easy-to-use, feature-rich book creation tools to their clients in return for their high volume, high margin print contracts.

In a special arrangement with FujiFilm USA, customers of the DocuColor series digital printers will receive a free demonstration copy of the software with their purchase. Certified technicians from FujiFilm USA will install the software and owners of the printers can contact Pelican Software directly to become a Publisher of their memory book applications!

Pelican Software is currently used to produce over 125 MILLION printed memory book pages per year! Support your investment - use our memory book applications to keep your printer printing!   To learn more call Don Power, Sales Manager for Pelican Software -1.800.988.4880 ext 105.

Independent Photo Imagers (IPI)

Pelican Software was recently featured in the Independent Photo Imagers (IPI) exclusive newsletter.  IPI is a trade association for independent photo lab operators, which aims to provide its members "with opportunities for profitability increases through privileged pricing and information exchange".

To read the Pelican News article, please click the below link:

IPI Supplying Partner Profile: Pelican Software

Pelican Software is happy to announce a new publishing partnership with our first IPI member, Film Drop.  All IPI members are encouraged to call Pelican Software's sales team at 1.800.988.4880 to learn more about our products and how they can help increase your company’s profitability.  

To learn more about IPI, visit: http://www.ipiphoto.com/front/ 

The Tabitha Foundation is supported by Pelican Software 

The Tabitha Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to help people in Cambodia through integrated development initiatives, such as health care, education, sanitation, housing, small business, and co-operatives. 

Pelican Software’s founder, Rob Snowie, is currently involved in supporting this initiative, and his story was featured in the Nanaimo Daily News in 2007.  More on this can be read about by clicking on the below link:

Nanaimo Man helping people in Cambodia

To learn more about the Tabitha Foundation, visit: http://www.tabitha.ca/