White Plains, NY, December 8, 2000 . . . PubEasy, The Global
Publishing e-Marketplace and International Thomson Publishing Services
(ITPS), a leading UK based distributor, announced today that ITPS has
joined PubEasy and plans to launch a new /TRANSACT enabled PubEasy web
site with a target launch date of February 28, 2001.
ITPS, a Thomson company, distributes over 50,000 titles for clients
including Taylor & Francis, Thomson Learning, Sweet & Maxwell,
Jane’s Information Group, Gale Group, Evans Publishing Group,
Granada Learning. ITPS is
currently growing their third-party business, and other non-Thomson
companies will be added in the future.
The PubEasy registered bookseller community is growing quickly with
over 3,300 bookseller accounts and over 4,800 users from 95+countries.
Booksellers in the US and around the world with a PubEasy password
will be able to obtain information on all the titles distributed by
ITPS and access the ITPS inventory/fulfillment system for real-time
price and availability information, order placement, order tracking
and access to e-Catalogs.
The ITPS /PubEasy site will offer booksellers all the new PubEasy
services including the /TRANSACT™ service, which enables booksellers
from anywhere in the world to "batch" price and availability
inquiries, order status inquiries and orders across the Internet for
rapid processing and acknowledgement. It will also offer carrier and
shipper information links, customized pricing and market restriction
information as well as the ability for booksellers to create and
modify their own e-catalogs on the ITPS/PubEasy site.
Barry Hinchmore, Vice President and General Manager of ITPS, said,
"ITPS is delighted to join the PubEasy community and provide both
our domestic and international customers access to the titles we
distribute through our PubEasy site. We have been considering our own
B2B initiative but we decided to affiliate with PubEasy as our service
provider since they offer the only standard interface to the whole of
the publishing community."
"Web based access to ITPS through the PubEasy service will be
a major plus for booksellers everywhere," said Peter. F. Clifton,
Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy. "ITPS distributes for several
major professional and reference publishers whose title base adds a
rich dimension to PubEasy in the UK and Europe. The ITPS distribution
list is prestigious and sought after by a wide range of booksellers.
ITPS accounts will benefit greatly by the transactional access planned
by PubEasy and ITPS."
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PubEasy™, the Global Publishing e-Marketplace, represents the
new standard in e-commerce for the global bookselling industry. More
than 4,800 booksellers from 95+ countries spanning North America,
Europe and Asia are using PubEasy to facilitate online access to
title, price and availability information, order placement and order
tracking details with participating publishers, distributors and
wholesalers, more quickly and cost-effectively. Booksellers with a
PubEasy password can directly access any participating Affiliate
website on the network. The service is available via the Internet,
twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
In the US, PubEasy Affiliates include, Random House, Inc.,
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., National Book Network and Holtzbrinck
Publishers, LLC. Other US Affiliate web sites scheduled to launch
include AIDC, Broadman & Holman and Chronicle Books.
In Canada, HarperCollins Canada is scheduled to launch a PubEasy
web site
In the UK, PubEasy Affiliates include, HarperCollins Publishers
Ltd., Macmillan Distribution Ltd., Penguin UK, TBS/Grantham Book
Services, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Gardners Books, Littlehampton
Book Services, Marston Book Services, Bookpoint, Airlift Book Company
and Whitaker Information Services. Plymbridge Distributors and ITPS are scheduled to launch PubEasy websites.
To access PubEasy, booksellers need a PubEasy password, a computer
with a Web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.0 or later) and an
Internet connection. Login to http://www.pubeasy.com and click the
'Register' button to obtain a user ID and password.