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The PubEasy registered bookseller community is growing fast with over 7,000 booksellers in 110 countries.  AIDC’s customers—including Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Ingram, as well as university, professional and scientific stores, libraries and colleges—can access the entire AIDC title database and inventory/fulfillment system for price and availability information, order placement, order tracking and access to e-Catalogs.

"As part of our e-business strategy, we identified PubEasy as the best way to provide our customers with self-service facilities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week," said Marilyn McConnell, CEO of AIDC. "We want to make sure that our customers are provided with state-of-the-art systems which are becoming industry standards. PubEasy enables our database information to be easily available to all our customers. PubEasy is using the Internet to make the bookselling process easier for us, our clients and our customers all at the same time."

Publishers represented by AIDC include:

• Anker Publishing - producers of professional development materials, print and non-print, for faculty and administrators in higher education;
• Berrett-Koehler Publishers - an independent publisher of books on creating humane and effective business organizations;
• BMJ Books - specialist medical books of the British Medical Association (BMA) and has been fulfilling the book-buying needs of doctors and other health care professionals world-wide since it was established in 1990;
• Blackwell Publishers - the world's largest independently-held book and journal publisher known for their student textbooks, professional periodicals and interactive software;
• Edward Elgar Publishing - known for their high quality list of monographs, reference works and advanced textbooks by important scholars working in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia;
• Institute of Physics Publishing - who serve the science and physics communities covering a wide range of subjects within the discipline of physics;
• Markus Wiener Publishers - with an extensive list of titles on European, American, African, Latin American and Caribbean history, ancient history, archaeology, women’s studies and religion;
• Pegasus Communications - publishers of books and newsletters, and producers of conferences and recordings on systems thinking, organizational learning, and the design and development of the next-generation workplace;
• The Society of Biblical Literature - who distribute classical bible literature; and,
• Teachers College Press - who publish books for all aspects of education, from pre-kindergarten to postgraduate, specializing in texts, professional books, videos and other materials.

"AIDC launching a PubEasy site is another great step toward increasing our Affiliate base in the United States," said Gary Bowman, COO of PubEasy. "We have effectively added over 20 new publishers to our service with the launch of AIDC’s site."

PubEasy®, the Global Publishing e-Marketplace, represents the new standard in e-commerce for the worldwide bookselling industry. Nearly 7,000 registered users in 106 countries spanning North America, Europe and Asia are using PubEasy to facilitate access to order placement, order tracking, price, title and availability data over the Internet with participating publishers, distributors and wholesalers, more quickly and cost-effectively. Booksellers with a PubEasy password can directly access any participating Affiliate website on the network. The service is available via the Internet twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

To access PubEasy, booksellers need a single PubEasy password, a computer with a Web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.0 or later) and an Internet connection. Login to http://www.pubeasy.com and click the 'Register' button to obtain a user ID and password.