White Plains, NY, March 17, 2000 . . . PubEasy.com, the global
Internet inquiry and ordering service, and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC,
the leading trade and college textbook publisher, today announced the
launch of Holtzbrinck’s Business-to-Business (B2B) PubEasy.com
website at http://pubeasy.vhpsva.com.
Access is free to all booksellers with a PubEasy.com password.
Booksellers who wish to receive a PubEasy.com password simply log on
to the Internet and go to http://register.pubeasy.com.
Holtzbrinck’s PubEasy.com web site provides booksellers around
the world with access to title price and availability, order status
and order placement services over the Internet 24 hours a day, 7
days-a-week. Since price, availability and order status information is
pulled directly from Holtzbrinck’s back office fulfillment system,
all information is real-time. In addition, booksellers can use the
Holtzbrinck PubEasy.com site to check the status of all their orders
with Holtzbrinck Publishers regardless of how the order is placed –
EDI, phone, fax, mail, PubEasy.com - and also check the status of
their back orders. Orders placed over the web are secure and
acknowledgements are fast and accurate.
Over 75,000 titles from the full range of Holtzbrinck’s
publishers and imprints will be available via their site, including:
Bedford, Freeman & Worth College Publishing, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, Henry Holt, Picador USA, Saint Martin’s Press, Tor and their
distributed publishers.
"Holtzbrinck Publishers is committed to using technology to
continually improve service to our customers," said Fritz Foy,
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Holtzbrinck
Publishers, LLC. "Launching a PubEasy.com site does this by
giving our customers the ability to get title and order information,
as well as the ability to place orders, any time of the day or
night."
"We are extremely pleased to have Holtzbrinck’s PubEasy.com
site go live in the US, " said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive
Officer of PubEasy.com. "Holtzbrinck has taken a leadership
position in the US market with respect to offering customers web-based
business-to-business services and their customers will be the first to
benefit from enhanced online customer self-service.