White Plains, NY, October 16, 2000 . . . Airlift Book
Company, the specialty distributor of US, UK, Canadian and
Australian publishers in the UK, and PubEasy, The Global
Publishing e-Marketplace, today launched the
Airlift/PubEasy web site, at http://pubeasy.books.airlift.co.uk.
Booksellers from around the world now have online
access through PubEasy to Airlift Distribution for title,
price and availability information, order placement and
order tracking. Airlift currently handles over 11,000
active titles from 200 well-known small and medium-sized
independent US, UK, Irish, Canadian and Australian
publishers and has nearly half a million items in stock.
Publishers represented by Airlift include Avery
Publishing Group, Black Sparrow Press, City Lights Books,
Eden Grove Editions, Hay House, Keats Publishing, Llewellyn Publications, New World Library, North Atlantic
Books, Shambhala Publications, Sounds True Audio, Ten
Speed Press, Tuttle Publishing, Vision On, and Samuel
Weiser Inc. Airlift Book Company also provides fulfillment
services for Kodansha International and related imprints.
Airlift specializes in titles about mind, body &
spirit, contemporary fiction and poetry, women’s
studies, feminism and lesbian, as well as a broad general
section that includes art and architecture, business,
cultural studies, cookery, music and children’s titles. Also included is a
large selection of audio
tapes ( mostly spoken word), tarot cards and posters. Bestselling authors include Richard Bolles, Charles
Bukowski, Shakti Gawain, Louise Hay, Bruce Lee, Neale
Donald Walsch, and Stuart Wilde.
"Facilitating service to our customers is a key
focus for Airlift now and in the future, said Don Skirving,
Chief Executive Officer of Airlift Book Company. "By
joining the PubEasy network of Affiliates, Airlift
demonstrates its support for what has become the standard
business-to-business Internet service for our
industry."
"The launch of the Airlift/PubEasy site
substantially enhances the utility of PubEasy for
booksellers who trade with specialty publishers,"
said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.
"The publishers and imprints distributed by Airlift
in the UK extends PubEasy’s usefulness to a wide range
of important titles so far not represented. We expect that
booksellers will make great use of the Airlift PubEasy web
site"