Digital Praise Enters Secular Marketplace
Relationships with SOS Network, Navarre Corporation, and Digital River offer Digital Praise opportunities for expansion into new retail, online markets.
Fremont, CA (PRWEB) August 5, 2005 -- Digital Praise, Inc, a leader in
family-friendly entertainment software, today announced its entrance into the
mainstream marketplace after forging working partnerships with Navarre
Corporation (Nasdaq: NAVR), SOS Network, and Digital River, Inc. The new
business relationships with, respectively, a publisher and distributor of home
entertainment and multimedia software products, an outsource sales channel
development and management firm, and a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing,
will allow Digital Praise to offer its gaming and entertainment software to a
larger number of families and consumers.
Digital Praise products have
previously been available exclusively through Christian Booksellers Association
(CBA) outlets and online from Digital Praise itself.
Exploring Retail
Channels
SOS Network will function as a retail sales partner for Digital
Praise, who, as a result of this non-exclusive agreement with SOS and Navarre,
is now a vendor for mainstream retail outlets such as Apple Stores, J&R
Music, Frye’s Electronics, and Amazon.com. Digital Praise will continue to work
closely with SOS Network in order to build relationships with and place Digital
Praise products in other retail outlets. Navarre Corporation is one of the
largest distributors of home entertainment software products in the United
States and Canada.
“We are excited to begin introducing our products into
the mainstream marketplace, and are grateful for the opportunities our
relationship with Navarre Corporation and SOS Network presents to Digital
Praise,” said Tom Bean, President and CEO of Digital Praise. “The two companies
are recognized leaders in the distribution and sale of home entertainment
software, and we are confident that, with their help, Digital Praise products
will be met by a warm reception from the mainstream
marketplace.”
Securing Online Presence
Digital Praise has also
extended its online presence by forging a partnership with MN-based Digital
River, a provider of global e-commerce and e-marketing services. The
relationship with Digital River will allow consumers to have direct access to
Digital Praise products online, and facilitate the real-time sale and digital
download of Digital Praise products over the Internet.
By working with
Digital River—as well as with Amazon.com, through SOS and Navarre—Digital Praise
seeks to solidify its hold on the online retail software market, offering
consumers from all walks of life the opportunity to purchase a variety of
entertaining Christian software products.
“Digital Praise is committed
to furthering the availability of faith-based software titles for children and
families,” said Tom Bean, President and CEO of Digital Praise. “We feel that the
messages our products convey will be as inspirational and uplifting to
mainstream consumers as they have been to Christian audiences, and that Digital
Praise products speak to youth regardless of creed or conviction.”
About
Digital Praise, Inc
Digital Praise is an independent developer and publisher
of family-friendly entertainment software for personal computers. The company
produces faith-based and mainstream titles for families looking to enjoy
interactive entertainment software with principled character building themes and
"just good clean fun." For more information, visit www.digitalpraise.com.
About Navarre
Corporation
Navarre Corporation (Nasdaq: NAVR) is a publisher and distributor
of a broad range of home entertainment and multimedia products, including PC
software, CD audio, DVD and VHS video, video games and accessories. Since its
founding in 1983, the company has established distribution relationships with
customers across a wide spectrum of retail channels which includes mass
merchants, discount, wholesale club, office and music superstores, military and
e-tailers nationwide. The company currently provides its products to over 18,000
retail and distribution center locations throughout the United States and
Canada. Navarre has recently expanded its business to include the licensing and
publishing of home entertainment and multimedia content, primarily through the
acquisitions of Encore Software, Inc., BCI Eclipse Company, LLC, FUNimation
Productions, Ltd. and the FUNimation stores, Ltd. For more information, please
visit the company's web site at http://www.navarre.com.
About SOS Network
SOS
Network provides worldwide channel sales development and account management
services for retail and corporate licensing technology vendors. Since its
inception in
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2001, SOS Network has partnered with thousands of resellers and
distributors, enabling clients to have access to corporate and consumer markets
in over 50 countries worldwide. Recently, SOS added an aggregation and software
republishing business unit to provide emerging growth vendors with “instant
access” to distribution services offered by Navarre and other carefully selected
distributors around the world. SOS Network’s clients range from early stage,
startup organizations with extensive sales and marketing requirements, to
seasoned companies who are looking to increase their customer base through new
channels. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.sosnetwork.net.
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.
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