Have you had any experience with Expertclick.com, which publishes the Yearbook of Experts? If so, please tell me whether it was good, bad or indifferent.

Expertclick offers its paying members an opportunity to list their biographies and areas of expertise in a searchable database and a printed Yearbook of Experts. In addition, they also offer their paying members the opportunity to publish monthly news releases on a release wire which they claim is distributed to over 11,000 journalists. Finally, they claim more than a million hits per month on their website.
One of my clients has asked me whether he should pay the $2495 US listing fee to appear in the Yearbook of Experts and to use their weekly news release service. I haven’t used this service before. So, I’m hoping to get some feedback on whether the actual results justify an investment of this type.
If you have used this service, I’d appreciate it if you could leave a comment or email me to let me know if it met your expectations. Did it yield any real results for you or your clients? Did reporters actually use it to identify sources for articles?

Thank you to anyone who can help me with this research.