White Plains, NY, February 15, 2000 . . . American International
Distribution Corporation (AIDC), the Vermont-based book distribution
company, and PubEasy.com™, the Internet inquiry and ordering service
for the book industry, announced today that AIDC will launch a
PubEasy.com e-commerce website later this year.
AIDC, which distributes approximately 20,000 titles for nearly two
dozen publishers, will soon provide online title searching, ordering
and tracking capabilities to their one million bookselling customers
such as Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Ingram, as
well as university, professional and scientific stores, libraries and
colleges through PubEasy.com.
Publishers represented by AIDC include: Blackwell Publishers, the
world's largest independently-held book and journal publisher known
for their student textbooks, professional periodicals and interactive
software; Edward Elgar Publishing, known for their high quality list
of monographs, reference works and advanced textbooks by important
scholars working in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia; Grove's
Dictionaries, who receive world-wide respect for their printed and
online access reference works in the areas of music, art, economics,
science, politics and history; Institute of Physics Publishing, who
serve the science and physics communities covering a wide range of
subjects within the discipline of physics; the Society of Biblical
Literature, who distribute classical bible literature; and Teachers
College Press, who publish books for all aspects of education, from
pre-kindergarten to postgraduate, specializing in texts, professional
books, videos and other materials.
"As part of our e-business strategy, we identified PubEasy.com
as the best way to provide our customers with e-commerce facilities 24
hours a day, 7 days a week," said Peter Miller, President AIDC.
"We want to make sure that our customers are provided with
state-of-the-art systems which are becoming industry standards,
enabling our database information to be easily available to all our
customers, using a common interface that will have benefits for our
clients and AIDC alike. We believe that PubEasy.com has invested in
the technology to make this happen and has kept publisher and customer
needs as the driving force of their implementations. "
"AIDC joining PubEasy.com is a great step toward increasing
our Affiliate base in the United States," said Peter Clifton, CEO
of PubEasy.com. "We will effectively be adding over 20 new
publishers to our service once AIDC goes live, which will increase our
presence as the new e-commerce publishing industry standard."