When Penguin’s PubEasy.com ecommerce web site goes
live, booksellers around the world will be provided access to daily updated price and
availability information on Penguin titles, and be able to securely place and track orders
over the Internet, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week directly with Penguin.
The full range of Penguin imprints will be represented, including Allen Lane, Hamish
Hamilton, Michael Joseph, Penguin, Penguin Classics, Penguin Reference, Penguin
Twentieth-Century Classics, Rough Guides (in which Penguin is a majority share holder),
Viking and children’s imprints Puffin, Ladybird and Frederick Warne.
"In continuation of our total commitment to the customer, we are embracing
Pubeasy.com to provide additional services and facilities that are now in common with the
industry demands," said Alec Price of Penguin.
Penguin joins Bookpoint, Exel Logistics, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, John Wiley &
Sons Ltd, Littlehampton Book Services, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Marston Book Services
and TBS/Grantham Book Services as an Affiliate of the PubEasy.com ecommerce network. The
PubEasy.com service recently added its first "live" US Affiliate, Broadman &
Holman, trade publishing subsidiary of LifeWay Christian Resources. Additional US
Affiliate sites scheduled to launch include Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Services (Henry
Holt, St. Martin’s Press and Farrar Straus & Giroux), and National Book Network.
"We are very pleased that Penguin has decided to join PubEasy.com. Access to the
wide range of trade titles and imprints that comprise the Penguin list will be welcomed by
the many booksellers who are choosing to do business over the Internet, through
PubEasy.com. Our service recently concluded a successful transition in which we upgraded
features and added new Affiliates in the UK and US. Our growth continues as the
PubEasy.com ecommerce community expands into new territory. We welcome Penguin and look
forward to working together with all our partners as we grow to the next level." Said
Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.com.
PubEasy.com is fast becoming the new standard method of electronic commerce for the
bookselling industry, speeding the supply chain by providing information over the Internet
whenever it is needed. More than 900 booksellers in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia
are regularly using the free service for daily updates on price and availability, to check
the status of their orders and to place orders, including TeleOrders at the Whitaker
PubEasy.com site. Booksellers can login directly to Affiliate sites or the Whitaker UK
bibliographic database via PubEasy.com.
PubEasy.com is a subsidiary of VISTA Computer Services, the worldwide provider of
integrated software applications and implementation services for the publishing industry.
