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CULVER CITY, Jan. 11 In a bold move to make building and sharing visual collections more affordable, Luna Imaging, Inc., announced a dramatic cut in the price for Insight, its powerful visual collection software used by top institutions for research and teaching. The steep price cut brings Insight within reach for all libraries, museums and universities, says Luna Chief Executive Officer Harvey A. Goldstein. ³In order to make Insight available for everyone, we had to eliminate significant barriers to access and one of those was price,² Goldstein says. ³The new value proposition means a much larger community sharing millions of images, thereby creating increased value for every user.² Lunaıs new academic fee structure represents a significant reduction from past pricing. Along with the price reduction, Luna is offering more from its software. Limits on the number of collections and the use of a variety of powerful tools for adding content to collections have all been lifted. http://www.lunaimaging.com/insight/pricing.html However, the lower pricing is available only through the end of March. Those who purchase Insight during this time will have price protection and a price guarantee. But, there is no assurance that the price will remain the same after March 31. The price cut reinforces Luna Imagingıs commitment to the concept of building content through community, says Luna Imaging Chief Operating Officer Alton Hoover. ³No one can build a complete visual collection for the arts and humanities by themselves,² Hoover says. ³We believe the price reduction will be a catalyst for institutions to build visual collections that can be shared and used.² Insight now serves as the platform of choice to share, manage and explore hundreds of thousands of images online, which when combined create an unparalleled resource in the arts and humanities, ranging from fine art to historic maps. Unique to Insight is a rich toolset for working with images and multimedia, including zooming on image details, conducting side-by-side comparisons, annotating images and more. Replacing the traditional slide carousel, Insight revolutionizes the way teaching and research are conducted at many leading educational and cultural heritage institutions from Stanford University to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Using Insight, instructors are building visual presentations for classroom use that can be as simple as a slideshow rotating through each image, or more complex comparing multiple images side-by-side. Once a presentation is saved it can be reused and published online for further student study. ³Colleges and universities are transitioning to digital collections to service a population that has grown up with technology and expect dynamic teaching and research tools like Insight in the classroom and dorm room,² Hoover says. The price reduction further demonstrates Lunaıs commitment to help lower the cost of digitization and expand access. In December, with the release of Insight 5.1, Luna helped to lower the cost of ownership by adding support for MySQL, the worldıs most popular open source database, which is an attractive alternative to higher-cost, commercial database offerings. In addition, new support for Safari, the default web browser for Mac OS X, expands access to collections powered by Insight. For additional information please contact Nancy Harm or Peter Cho. -- Nancy Harm Eastern Regional Sales Manager (New York) Direct: 917-521-1309 [log in to unmask] Peter Cho Western Regional Sales Manager (Los Angeles) Direct: 310-945-3333 [log in to unmask] Luna Imaging, Inc. www.LunaImaging.com __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]