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The PubEasy registered bookseller community is growing fast with
over 6,400 booksellers from 106 countries. Booksellers in the US and
around the world, with a PubEasy password, will be able to access the
entire Chronicle Books title database and inventory/fulfillment system
for real-time price and availability information, order placement,
order tracking and access to e-Catalogs. The Chronicle Books/PubEasy
site will offer the new PubEasy services including the /TRANSACT™
service, which enables booksellers from anywhere in the world to
"batch" price and availability inquiries, order status
inquiries and orders across the Internet for rapid processing and
acknowledgement. It will also offer carrier and shipper links,
personal pricing and market restriction information as well as the
ability for booksellers to create and modify their own e-Catalogs on
the Chronicle/PubEasy site.
Chronicle Books specializes in high-quality illustrated books
including, The Beatles Anthology, and other popculture titles,
as well as award winning books on food, gardening, fine art, design,
photography and style. Chronicle Books also has a successful children’s
book list, which includes Olive, the other Reindeer, and a gift
division which publishes a well respected and extensive selection of
notecards, journals and calendars.
Tom Fernald, Executive Director of Operations and Finance of
Chronicle Books said, "We are excited to offer expanded and
flexible ordering and inventory status checking services to our
customers over the Internet. The Chronicle Books/PubEasy site will
enable our customers to communicate and place orders with us at all
times of the day and night, which as a San Francisco based publisher
is an important service for us to provide—particularly to our East
Coast customers. With PubEasy’s growing presence in the marketplace,
we believe this was a critical strategy to undertake and the right
time to get on board. PubEasy further facilitates the already strong
sales growth of our own books and for our distributed publishers’
books."
"Chronicle Books adds an exciting dimension to PubEasy in the
US. The Chronicle list is prestigious and sought after by a wide range
of book-resellers. Chronicle accounts will benefit greatly by the
transactional access provided by PubEasy and Chronicle," said
Gary Bowman, Chief Operating Officer of PubEasy.
Chronicle Books is the exclusive US distributor of North-South
Books, Sea Star Books, Innovative Kids USA, Handprint Books, Ragged
Bears, Princeton Architectural Press and Princeton’s distributed
publishers Balcony Press, Birkhauser, Lars Muller, Hyphen Press and
Springer Vienna.