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IDW Comics Launch on Nokiaâ€™s Ovi Store

San Diego, CA (July 21, 2010) – IDW Publishing today announced that it will debut the company’s most popular properties including TRANSFORMERS, Star Trek, G.I. JOE, Dragon Age, Witch & Wizard, Astro Boy, Danger Girl, Dreamland Chronicles and Ghostbusters on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Starting this week, Nokia users can enjoy more than 120 different titles exclusively from IDW’s huge comics catalog. Each comic is available as an individual app, with more titles coming soon.

“We’re excited to be the first premier publisher to bring our comics lineup to Nokia users,” stated Jeff Webber, IDW’s Director of ePublishing. “We worked together with Nokia to define a top-tier comic app and their technology team quickly put together an excellent solution. Nokia’s expertise allows us to exploit the strongest capabilities of their Symbian technology and ensure that the experience is consistent for all users.”

IDW joined with the mobile phone giant to kick off the launch of Nokia’s new comic catalog. Working closely with IDW, Nokia created a custom app that delivers a superb reading experience on a wide range of Nokia devices such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia5530 XpressMusic, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, and Nokia X6.

IDW comics are currently available at http://bit.ly/9piuq7

Visit IDWPublishing.com to sign up for updates and learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

About IDW Publishing IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro's The Transformers and G.I. JOE, Paramount's Star Trek; Fox's Angel; the BBC's Doctor Who; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studios; and is the print publisher for EA Comics and ComicMix.

IDW's original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.

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