SmartDraw.com and Matthews Book Company Partner to Provide SmartDraw Healthcare Edition to Academic Bookstores and Medical Libraries

San Diego, Calif. — May 9, 2006 - SmartDraw.com, the world's leading publisher of medical graphics software, has appointed Matthews Book Company, a leading distributor of health science information to bookstores and libraries nationwide, as a reseller of the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition, a graphics program designed for healthcare professionals, medical and nursing students. Matthews will distribute SmartDraw's software to bookstores, health science libraries and hospitals. The software product will be shrink-wrapped for bookstores, and site-licenses will be offered to libraries and hospitals.

"We are excited to make our healthcare graphics available to the nation's medical students, nursing students and instructors through Matthews," said Todd Savitt. Vice President, Business Development at SmartDraw.com. "Our partnership with SmartDraw will allow us to satisfy the demand for medical illustrations and graphics to our customer base," said Linda Nash, CEO of Matthews Book Company.

Featuring thousands of symbols and templates specialized for the healthcare community; the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition allows healthcare practitioners and students to make effective diagrams for patient and staff education, case management, presentations, and more.

With the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition, drawing is easy. Users simply drag ready-made graphics from the built-in libraries and drop them onto a template. With helpful features such as automatic alignment and formatting, SmartDraw requires no artistic talent or technical expertise: even first-time users can create perfect diagrams in minutes.

The searchable templates are arranged in easy-to-find categories, and helpful Wizards walk users through common diagram tasks, each step of the way. The product includes specialized symbols recommended by healthcare practitioners and textbook-quality medical images from Lippincott, Williams — Wilkins and Netter Images from Elsevier.

The SmartDraw Healthcare Edition works hand-in-hand with Microsoft Office^®, allowing users to copy and paste directly to and from PowerPoint^®, Excel^® and Word^®. In addition, users can print anything from standard sizes to huge posters for presentations.

About SmartDraw.com
Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the world's most popular business graphics software. SmartDraw allows anyone to create professional-quality business graphics in minutes - no experience or training required. The Company is the leader in the emerging "Personal Productivity Graphics" market. This market is made up of ordinary computer users who want to create attractive and effective business graphics, but don't have the expertise to use software designed for graphics professionals. In mid 2006, SmartDraw.com surpassed the ten millionth download of SmartDraw. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, SmartDraw.com is privately-held and counts more than half the Fortune 500 among its customers. To download a free trial of SmartDraw, please visit: www.smartdrawhealth.com.

About Matthews Book Company
Matthews Book Company is a distributor of health science books, and multimedia products. Founded in 1889, Matthews Book Company is an employee-owned company which has earned a long-standing reputation as one of the nation's leading distributors of health science books and multimedia products representing over 5,000 publishers. Matthews' headquarters is based out of a centrally located 80,000-square-foot facility in St. Louis, Missouri. A second distribution center located in Pine Brook, New Jersey, serves the northeast. As an organization, Matthews' mission is to support the advancement of the health sciences by being the premier source for the latest in health science information products and by delivering exemplary service to the institutions that bring this information to the health science community. For more information, please visit www.matthewsbooks.com

Contact:
Public Relations & Marketing Specialist, 858-225-3340, PublicRelations@smartdraw.com

SmartDraw.Com Corporate Information
Company Name: SmartDraw.Com
Mailing Address: 9909 Mira Mesa Blvd., Ste 300, San Diego, CA 92131
Healthcare web site: http://www.smartdrawhealth.com
Corporate web site: http://www.smartdraw.com
E-mail: mail@smartdraw.com
Phone: 858-225-3300
Fax: 858-225-3390