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Innovative Web-based Book Publishing Platform, Blurb, Leverages Internap’s Data Center Colocation and Performance IP™ for Secure Storage and Internet Delivery of a Library of New TitlesPowerful applications and growing community empower any Web user to design, publish, share and sell their own bookstore-quality booksATLANTA – (November 13, 2008) – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced its data center colocation and Performance IP™ network solutions are powering Blurb, a creative book publishing platform enabling anyone to design, publish, share and sell their own bookstore-quality books. Blurb is leveraging Internap’s robust solution set to deliver a sleek, commercial-quality service to over half a million users worldwide. More than 200,000 unique titles have been published at Blurb over the past two years by creative professionals and consumers worldwide. With the Blurb service, four-color books are made using the HP Indigo digital printing press, and users have complete creative control to design their own books, with minimum print runs of a single copy. Blurb also features edit-on-the-fly capabilities, mass customization and global marketing and distribution for customers looking to sell their books online in the Blurb Bookstore. “Blurb’s book publishing platform enables anyone with content to easily create beautiful, professional-quality books,” said Greg Dotson, chief technology officer at Blurb. “Our customers upload many thousands of books each week. It is absolutely critical that our technology infrastructure be reliable and scalable to support our continued growth, and Internap delivers with 100% performance.” Creating your own book with Blurb is easy and inexpensive. Prices start at $12.95 for a 40-page 7x7 softcover book and $22.95 for a 40-page 7x7 hardcover book with dust jacket. Users simply download the free Blurb BookSmart™ software available at blurb.com, and drag and drop images and text into hundreds of professionally designed layouts. Photos can be easily imported into the book from personal files or from photo sharing websites such as Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug and Photobucket. Blurb customers can make their book available only to friends and family, or sell their work in the Blurb Bookstore. Blurb’s bookstore and online marketing tools let people share, market and sell their books, and keep 100% of the markup. “The Internet is a publishing platform with the potential to change the world as dramatically as Gutenberg’s printing press,” said Tim Sullivan, chief technology officer at Internap. “Blurb’s powerful publishing platform combined with Internap’s data center and network solutions are empowering a new generation of authors and a global community of readers.” Internap’s enterprise-class data center provides space, power and network to run Blurb’s website for the thousands of valuable publishing assets stored on Blurb’s systems. Performance IP networking is the route optimized managed service that monitors the performance of Internet backbones around the world and automatically routes data traffic to the best performing path. The network service is integrated with data center colocation and comes with a 100% performance service level agreement (SLA) that provides small businesses like Blurb with a reliable and scalable technology infrastructure for their websites and applications. About Blurb Blurb won a 2008 Webby Award for Best Services website, has been recognized as an OnMedia 100 winner by AlwaysOn in 2008, was named a Momentum 15 company by Dealmaker Media in 2007, and was the 2007 Pixel Awards Geek Winner. Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005 and is funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Blurb BookSmart™ software is free for Mac or PC at www.blurb.com. About Internap Internap “Safe Harbor” Statement Our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks, as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement for any reason. Press Contact: Investor Contact:
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