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."
