Somerset, NJ, October 11, 1999 . . . John Wiley
& Sons Ltd., the largest European operation of John Wiley & Sons, and PubEasy.com,
the global Internet inquiry and ordering service, announced today the launch of
Wiley’s PubEasy.com e-commerce website at http://pubeasy.books.wiley.co.uk.
Wiley develops, publishes and sells print and electronic media for educational,
professional, scientific, technical, medical and consumer markets worldwide and ranks as
one of the world’s top three scientific, technical and medical publishers.
Wiley’s areas of specialization include architecture, business, chemistry,
engineering, finance, life and medical sciences, management, mathematics and statistics,
psychology and technology. With over 47,000 active titles available on its database,
including 16,000 Wiley books, they also distribute for a number of prestigious American
publishers, including California, Columbia & Princeton University Press, Harvard
University Press, MIT Press, W.W. Norton, O’Reilly, Sybex, The University of Chicago
Press and Yale University Press.
"Joining the PubEasy.com network of Affiliates will assist in enhancing overall
customer relations with our clients," said Bob Long, Sales and Marketing Director at
Wiley. "Over 40% of our clients are overseas, so our new PubEasy.com e-commerce
website allows us to overcome time zone difficulties and will enable clients to perform
many customer service functions, such as title, price and availability checks and placing
and tracking orders, over the Internet at any time of the day."
"The launch of Wiley's PubEasy.com web site is a significant enhancement for
booksellers who sell professional, technical, scientific and trade titles," said
Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.com. "We are extremely pleased
to have Wiley join the PubEasy.com community. For the many booksellers who are currently
registered to PubEasy.com and do
business with Wiley, this is an important initiative in customer self-service. We
expect that because of the nature of Wiley's publishing program, many new booksellers will
obtain passwords on PubEasy.com and that will add to the already fast growing traffic we
are seeing across all sites."
The Wiley/PubEasy.com website launch follows the recent launch of the Gardners Books
PubEasy.com website.
PubEasy.com, the Internet inquiry and ordering service represents the new standard
in e-commerce for the global bookselling industry. More than 1,500 booksellers from over
60 countries spanning the UK, Europe, North America and Asia are using the service 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. Booksellers with a PubEasy.com password can directly access any participating
Affiliate web site on the network or the Whitaker UK bibliographic site.
The service is free to booksellers and is available via the Internet 24 hours a day,
7-days a week.
Macmillan Distribution Ltd., Marston Book Services, Exel Logistics, Bookpoint (Hodder
Headline), TBS/Grantham Book Services and J. Whitaker & Sons provided early support
and endorsement of PubEasy.com. Participation from the bookselling industry continues to
grow, with recent Affiliate sites launched by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Gardners Books,
Penguin UK, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. and Littlehampton Book Services. Airlift Book
Company is scheduled to launch a PubEasy.com website in the coming months.
US Affiliate websites scheduled to launch include: Broadman & Holman, Von
Holtzbrinck Publishing Services (Henry Holt, St. Martin's Press and Farrar Straus &
Giroux) and National Book Network (the second largest US book distributor).
To access PubEasy.com, booksellers require a password, a computer with a Web browser
(Netscape or Internet Explorer 3.0 or later) and an Internet connection. Login to
http://www.pubeasy.com and click the 'Register' button to obtain a user ID and password.
Current "live" PubEasy.com web site address
Bookpoint
http://pubeasy.books.bookpoint.co.uk
Exel Logistics
http://pubeasy.books.exel-media.co.uk
Gardners Books
http://pubeasy.books.gardners.com
HarperCollins Ltd.
http://pubeasy.books.harpercollins.co.uk
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
http://pubeasy.books.wiley.co.uk
Littlehampton Books Services http://pubeasy.books.lbsltd.co.uk
Macmillan Distribution
http://pubeasy.books.macmillan-mdl.co.uk
Marston Book Services
http://pubeasy.books.marston.co.uk
Penguin UK
http://pubeasy.books.penguin.co.uk
TBS/GBS Book Services http://pubeasy.books.tbs-ltd.co.uk
Whitaker
http://whitaker.pubeasy.com
PubEasy.comTM is a registered trademark of VISTA Computer Services
PubEasy.com is a subsidiary of VISTA Computer Services
