Shutterbug Magazine Press Release

Shutterbug Magazine today unveiled the Shutterbug Gold Member Program, a nationwide program that offers serious amateur and professional photographers exclusive discounts on photography products and services. In conjunction with this announcement, Shutterbug also announced that Internet-based digital print processor, myPhotopipe.com, was the program’s founding partner.

Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 14, 2006—Shutterbug Magazine today unveiled the Shutterbug Gold Member Program, a nationwide program that offers serious amateur and professional photographers exclusive discounts on photography products and services. “As the leading magazine for serious amateur and professional photographers we thought it time to leverage our unique relationships by bringing special discounts to our community of readers,” said Shutterbug Magazine Publisher Ron Leach.

Enrollment in the Gold Member Program will be offered free of charge to the more than 86,000 subscribers and 300,000 readers of Shutterbug magazine thus making it one of the largest reward programs of its kind. Said Leach: “In this era of intense competition from a multiplicity of media outlets we felt in incumbent upon us as an industry leader to put our full weight behind a program that offers so many benefits to such a large group of users.” Enrollment information may be found on the company’s website at www.shutterbug.com, and, in Shutterbug Magazine.

Shutterbug also named the first sponsor in the program – myPhotopipe.com, one of the nation’s fastest growing communities of serious amateur and professional photographers. myPhotopipe.com is an online lab that process digital photos into film quality prints. The company offers more than 94 print options in size up to eight-feet wide, the Internets largest photographic prints. “We found in myphotopipe a company that was as much about innovation as we are, which was a perfect fit for a founding partner,” said Leach. Added L. Douglas Keeney, CEO of myPhotopipe.com, “Digital photography profoundly changed the face of this industry but in the end it still comes down to quality, service and people helping people. In these areas, Shutterbug Magazine sets the bar for all us which makes us exceedingly proud to be a founding participant with them.”

Details of the program will appear on Shutterbug Magazine’s web site at www.shutterbug.com, at www.myphotopipe.com, and in further press releases.