White Plains, NY, October 3, 2000 . . .National
Book Network, one of the fastest growing distributors of books in the United States,
together with PubEasy.com, today announced the launch of NBN’s business-to-business
PubEasy.com web site at http://pubeasy.books.nbnbooks.com.
Booksellers in the US and from around the world now have online access to title, price
and availability information, ordering and order status tracking on the more than 7,000
titles represented by the 80-plus publishers that are distributed by National Book
Network. NBN offers an exceptionally broad list of books of all adult and children’s
general trade categories including history, biography, mind body spirit, cook, gardening,
travel, and music.
Over the past two years, all of the major distribution companies in the UK and several
leading medium-size distributors have joined the PubEasy.com community. In the US, both
NBN and AIDC have joined the service. PubEasy.com is the only transactional system to
offer such comprehensive access to the distributor market in the US and UK. Such support
from the Distributor community demonstrates that PubEasy.com is rapidly developing into an
international standard for transactional business between booksellers and their publisher
and distributor suppliers.
NBN distributes for many leading US publishers including: Kiplinger Books, Regnery
Publishing, M Evans & Co., Harvard Common Press, Chilton Books, Consumer Reports,
Entrepreneur Media, Future Medicine, Rowman & Littlefield, Presidio Press, and others.
UK publishers represented by NBN include, Thorson’s, Carlton Books, Sutton
Publishing, Methuen, Sanctuary Publishing, Nicholas Brealey, Icon Books.
"Establishing an online B2B portal where we can facilitate improved self-service
for our customers is a key part of our business and systems strategy, said Rich Freese,
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for National Book Network. "PubEasy.com is
building a global business-to business community linking publishers, distributors and
booksellers together. We think it’s an important place to be".
"The launch of the NBN/PubEasy.com site substantially increases the number of US
publishers represented on PubEasy.com," said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive
Officer of PubEasy.com. "Our active US web sites now include The Random House Group,
HarperCollins Publishers, Holtzbrinck and National Book Network, which offer booksellers
access to critical business functionality for many of the leading trade publishers in the
US."
