ENTOURAGE IN THE NEWS

Entourage Yearbooks
743 Alexander Rd. Suite 6
Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: (609) 452-2665
Fax: (800) 395-9120



PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, MAY 27-After a year of successful operation, Entourage Yearbooks will expand its "boutique-style" services, by which customers publish yearbooks without dedicating extensive resources to designing and editing. The company offers graphic design and printing assistance for school yearbooks, military cruise books, church directories and similar publications and markets its services to schools and organizations in search of a higher level of assistance than is customary with traditional yearbook printers. Entourage Yearbooks caters to smaller organizations that would like to publish a yearbook but are discouraged by minimum orders or the complicated process by which a traditional yearbook is prepared for publication.

A traditional yearbook publication calls for a school or organization's representative to supervise the creation of a yearbook, typically as part of an extracurricular activity or an elective course. The process is often assisted by a representative from the yearbook company who provides limited aid and guidance, but traditional methods call for the use of specialized programs like Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop and QuarkXpress that require preexisting graphic design knowledge. Entourage Yearbooks offers traditional yearbook services like its competitors, but also provides the option of using Yearbooks! Desktop 2008, a new yearbook design software which automates page layout using templates and reduces the need for extended proofreading and revision cycles. Yearbooks! Desktop requires less powerful computers than other desktop publishing software, reducing the need to purchase and maintain expensive computers loaded with less specialized programs.

Coupled with its use of simpler software, Entourage Yearbooks provide online tools to streamline the publication process further. Yearbook pages are available as templates to be filled with photographs and text to suit the client's needs and come singly in groupings of 50, 70 and 100 pages to allow the creation of an entire book. Online resources to manage yearbook content, deadlines and funding simplify the role of faculty advisers and students by organizing the publication process. Online technical support is available to Entourage Yearbooks' customers, who can chat with graphic designers and software specialists to help them resolve difficulties as they occur, instead of scheduling sales representative to make an appearance on site. Technical service representatives can also offer "remote control" solutions to especially tricky problems.

Entourage Yearbooks also plans to expand their offerings of yearbook curriculum materials in the form of ready-made lesson plans for teachers to incorporate into their classroom activities, marketing materials to publicize the availability of a yearbook, and an ever-expanding collection of free templates and fonts. A comprehensive list of Entourage Yearbooks' services is available at http://www.entourageyearbooks.com. Representatives are available toll-free at 1-888-YBOOKS1.

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For more information, please contact Kelly Koniowsky at kelly@entourageyearbooks.com, or by telephone at 609-452-2665.