FRANKLIN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHERS AND LANGENSCHEIDT VERLAG ENTER INTO GLOBAL LICENSING AGREEMENT

Agreement Provides for Franklin’s Distribution of New Electronic Dictionaries under the Franklin® and Seiko® Brands

Munich, Germany and Burlington, NJ, 6 October 2005. Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (AMEX:FEP), a world leader in handheld information, has entered into an Omnibus Licensing Agreement with the Langenscheidt Verlag (Publisher) that provides for the companies to cooperate in producing and marketing electronic dictionaries with content from Langenscheidt.