White Plains, NY, October 10, 2000 . . . PubEasy,
The Global Publishing e-Marketplace and Chronicle Books LLC, the San Francisco based book
publisher announced today that Chronicle Books Publishing has joined PubEasy and plan to
launch a PubEasy web site with a target launch date of January 2001.
Chronicle Books specializes in high-quality illustrated books including, The Beatles
Anthology, and other popculture titles, as well as award winning books on food,
gardening, fine art, design, photography and style. Chronicle Books also has a successful
children’s book list, which includes Olive, the other Reindeer, and a gift
division which publishes a well respected and extensive selection of notecards, journals
and calendars.
The PubEasy registered bookseller community is growing fast with over 3,000 bookseller
accounts and 4,500 users from 95+countries. Booksellers in the US and around the world,
with a PubEasy password, will be able to access the entire Chronicle Books title database
and inventory/fulfillment system for real-time price and availability information, order
placement, order tracking and access to e-Catalogs. The Chronicle Books/PubEasy site will
offer 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 links, personal pricing and market
restriction information as well as the ability for booksellers to create and modify their
own e-Catalogs on the Chronicle/PubEasy site.
Tom Fernald, Executive Director of Operations and Finance of Chronicle Books said,
"We are excited to offer expanded and flexible ordering and inventory status checking
services to our customers over the Internet. The Chronicle Books/PubEasy site will enable
our customers to communicate and place orders with us at all times of the day and night,
which as a San Francisco based publisher is an important service for us to
provide—particularly to our East Coast customers. With the continued growth in sales
of our own books and in the sales of our distributed publishers’ books, we felt this
was a critical strategy to undertake and the right time to get on board given
PubEasy’s growing presence in the marketplace."
"Chronicle Books adds an exciting dimension to PubEasy in the US. The Chronicle
list is prestigious and sought after by a wide range of book-resellers. Chronicle accounts
will benefit greatly by the transactional access provided by PubEasy and Chronicle,"
said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy
Chronicle Books is the exclusive US distributor of North-South Books, Sea Star Books,
Innovative Kids USA, Handprint Books, Ragged Bears, Princeton Architectural Press and
Princeton’s distributed publishers Balcony Press, Birkhauser, Lars Muller, Hyphen
Press and Springer Vienna.
