EDGAR Online To Provide Bowne, the Leading EDGAR Filing Agent, With Access to EDGAR Online Pro and Custom Market Share Reports

South Norwalk, CT - March 10, 2003 - EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR) today announced it signed a multi-year contract with Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE: BNE), a global leader in delivering high-value document management solutions, to provide Bowne sales, marketing and customer service teams with EDGAR Online's flagship EDGAR Online Pro desktop service.

As a result, Bowne clients will have access to EDGAR Online Pro services in each of the company's more than 50 Financial Print offices worldwide, allowing them to leverage current disclosure information contained in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database so they can use existing language to help create new financial documents more efficiently.

In addition, EDGAR Online will provide Bowne with custom market share reports to be used in assessing its EDGAR filing market share. EDGAR Online is a leader in the business information industry, specializing in the extraction, packaging and distribution of public company information contained in SEC filings.

"EDGAR Online's real-time and feature-rich EDGAR Online Pro desktop will assist our employees in providing the high level of service our clients have come to expect," said David Copenhafer, Director of EDGAR Services for Bowne & Co., Inc. "EDGAR Online's provision of highly functional tools and custom reports will only add to Bowne's leadership position as the world's largest financial printer and leading EDGAR filer." In 2002, Bowne managed approximately 46,000 EDGAR filings on behalf of its clients.

"EDGAR Online is pleased to be providing Bowne the very best tools and functionality we offer thru our EDGAR Online Pro desktop and custom reporting capabilities," said Susan Strausberg, President and CEO of EDGAR Online, Inc.

About EDGAR Online, Inc.
EDGAR Online, Inc. (www.edgar-online.com) is a leader in the business information industry, specializing in the extraction, packaging and distribution of public company information contained in SEC filings. Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with offices in Maryland and New York City, the company sells subscription products, data and services to financial institutions, corporations and law firms.

About Bowne & Co., Inc.
Bowne & Co., Inc., founded in 1775, is a global leader in providing high-value solutions that empower our clients' communications.

• Bowne Financial Print: The most comprehensive array of transactional and compliance-related services to create, manage, translate and distribute mission-critical documents.
• Bowne Enterprise Solutions: Digital printing and electronic delivery of personalized communications that enable companies to strengthen relationships and increase market leadership.
• Bowne Business Solutions: A full array of outsourcing services in word processing, desktop publishing, information technology, litigation resource management and office document services.
• Bowne Global Solutions: A broad range of localization services, which help companies adapt communications developed in one country to meet the social, cultural and business requirements for successful distribution in another.

Bowne & Co. combines all of these capabilities with superior customer service, new technologies, confidentiality and integrity to manage, repurpose and distribute a client's information to any audience, through any medium, in any language, anywhere in the world. For more information, visit us at www.bowne.com.

"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance. These statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. EDGAR Online, Inc. disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Please refer to the documents filed by EDGAR Online, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to risks associated with changes in general economic and business conditions (including in the online business and financial information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for our services, risks in connection with our recent acquisition and other acquisitions which we may consummate in the future, the time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services and changes in our business strategies.

EDGAR is a federally registered trademark of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). EDGAR Online is not affiliated with or approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EDGAR Online is a product of EDGAR Online, Inc.

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