SourceMedia Launches New eBook Publication

Bi-weekly Prepaid Trends to Cover the Prepaid Card/Stored Value Market

NEW YORK, NY – March 16, 2005 – SourceMedia, a leading source of information on the cards, electronic and payments industry, has launched a new bi-weekly eBook publication called Prepaid Trends. SourceMedia publishes such well known card-related publications as Cards&Payments, CardLine and ATM&Debit News. Prepaid Trends is distributed free of charge to merchants, insurers, employers, bankers, travel executives, health care executives and government officials.

Published 26 times a year, Prepaid Trends provides comprehensive, insightful, timely news and analysis about the growing use of prepaid cards in such areas as: gift cards, emergency relief, health savings accounts, and distribution of wages to workers without bank accounts.

Launched in mid-February 2006, Prepaid Trends is distributed electronically and includes multimedia and interactive features such as audio files, video clips and animation. Registered users can quickly navigate through the publication by clicking on headlines and department headings in the table of content to the page of their choice.

“Prepaid Trends was created because of the remarkable growth of this segment in the payments industry. We wanted to provide our readers with more information on how to achieve success in the prepaid card/stored value market – topics that are targeted directly to this audience,” said Andy Rowe, Prepaid Trends publisher.

To sign up for your free copy of Prepaid Trends, please visit www.prepaidtrends.com or contact Customer Service at (800) 221-1809 for more information.