White Plains, NY, June 27, 2000.... PubEasy.com was selected as the
winner of the ISI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards for the London Region
at an awards ceremony on June 15th. The award recognizes
and rewards companies for innovation and achievement in the use of
e-business. PubEasy.com, the business-to-business online inquiry and
ordering service for the publishing industry, was selected from a
field of over 400 contestants. The award is jointly managed by the UK
Department of Trade & Industry’s Information Society Initiative
and InterForum and sponsored by NatWest and British Telecom.
PubEasy.com focuses on bridging the information gap and building a
value added business-to-business community service within the global
publishing industry. The service was developed to address the
inefficiencies of sharing information between publishers and retailers
which resulted in increased costs, lost sales and was to the detriment
of the consumer.
Today, more than 3,500 booksellers from over 95 countries spanning
the UK, Europe, North America and Asia use PubEasy.com to communicate
with the network of suppliers and over 100 new booksellers continue to
register each month. Two of the largest US trade publishers, Random
House, Inc. and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, have launched PubEasy.com
sites with a third scheduled to launch soon. In the UK, publishers
representing over 70% of the market, are represented on PubEasy.com.
Booksellers use PubEasy.com to access title, price and availability
information, to place orders, to check the status of their orders and
to access catalogs from participating publishers, distributors and
wholesalers. The service is free to booksellers and is available via
the Internet twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
"We are extremely pleased to receive this award," said
Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.com. "Much
of the credit goes to the participating publishers, distributors and
wholesalers who have realized that the key to an efficient supply
chain can be summarized as cooperation in action — creating value by
aggregating a critical mass, reducing transaction costs, facilitating
an open communication environment and adopting common standards, not
just for those who can afford it but for all. This is the
"win-win" goal that benefits all."