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White Plains, NY, September 15, 2000 . . .PubEasy, the Global Publishing e-Marketplaceä for publishers and booksellers, and HarperCollins Publishers, one of the world’s largest leading Trade publishers and a subsidiary of News Corporation, today announced the availability of the HarperCollins US PubEasy.com site at http://pubeasy.books.harpercollins.com.   The US site joins the HarperCollins UK site, which launched in March of 1999. Together, the two HarperCollins’ sites represent a significant endorsement of the PubEasy.com Global Publishing e-Marketplace.

Booksellers in the US and around the world, with a PubEasy password, can now login to the HarperCollins US and UK/PubEasy site(s) and gain easy access to order placement, order tracking, and title, price and availability data. The HarperCollins US/PubEasy site is the first to launch with the latest version of PubEasy which offers the new /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.

Booksellers can also use the new e-Catalog features, which enable the online creation of customized bookseller e-Catalogs for standing orders or frequently ordered titles, as well as Publisher created e-catalogs for inquiring and ordering on title lists organized by subject, by category or any other criteria desired.

Glenn D’Agnes, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins said, "PubEasy offers all our customers, especially those in overseas markets, a faster, more effective and secure method to obtain information, place orders and view the status of their orders."

Peter F. Clifton, PubEasy’s Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are extremely pleased that HarperCollins has chosen PubEasy as its e-business provider and we know that domestic and international booksellers will benefit tremendously from accelerated online communications provided through PubEasy."