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White Plains, NY, March 15, 2001 . . . Domhan Books, (pronounced DOW-ann), a Pulitzer Prize nominated publisher, and PubEasy The Global Publishing e-Marketplace, today announced that Domhan will shortly launch a PubEasy/EXCHANGE™ web site.

PubEasy/EXCHANGE™ is the new hosted PubEasy service that enables small and medium sized publishers, distributors and wholesalers to join PubEasy and provide a full featured e-commerce ordering and inquiry web site to the worldwide community of booksellers who are registered with PubEasy.

Booksellers from over 100 countries will have online access to Domhan’s own PubEasy web site for title, price and availability information, electronic order placement, and e-Catalog access. Domhan Books’ first-ever paperback title was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction for 1999 and their second-ever paperback title appeared for five weeks in a row on the bn.com bestsellers list in June and July 2000 in the e-book section.

In addition, Domhan Books publishes almost 200 titles from writers across the world in diverse subject areas such as romance, mystery, multicultural, science fiction and more. Many titles are available in multiple formats, including hardcover, paperback, electronic and large print.

Publishers and distributors who join PubEasy/EXCHANGE™ instantly present a full featured e-business "storefront" to the fast growing global network of booksellers on PubEasy to offer 24-hour/7-day ordering and inquiry customer self-service via the Internet. The /EXCHANGE hosted server environment is simple to implement and maintain, and can increase direct sales, marketing reach and improve customer service to booksellers worldwide.

"The PubEasy/EXCHANGE™ enables us to provide our customer base with the means to do business with us via the Internet as well as extends our revenue opportunities through increased worldwide visibility to new markets which we couldn’t reach with traditional methods," commented Joan Mullally, Publisher of Domhan Books. "/EXCHANGE put us into e-business quickly and inexpensively and we also see it as a tremendous strategic marketing tool."

Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy stated, "PubEasy/EXCHANGE™ is a tremendous tool for all the small and medium sized publishers, distributors and wholesalers around the world who see global e-commerce as a way to increase sales and improve direct marketing to booksellers. We welcome Domhan to PubEasy".

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PubEasy™, the Global Publishing e-Marketplace, represents the new standard in e-commerce for the global bookselling industry. More than 5,100 booksellers in 100+ 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.

In the US, "live" Affiliates include HarperCollins, Random House, Inc., National Book Network and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC. Other US Affiliate web sites scheduled to launch include AIDC, Broadman & Holman, and Chronicle Books.

In Canada, HarperCollins Canada is scheduled to launch a PubEasy web site.

In the UK, PubEasy Affiliates include HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Macmillan Distribution Ltd., Penguin UK, TBS/Grantham Book Services, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Gardners Books, Littlehampton Book Services, Marston Book Services, Bookpoint (Hodder Headline) and Airlift Book Company. ITPS is scheduled to launch a PubEasy website.

PubEasy/EXCHANGE™ is the new hosted service for small publishers, distributors and wholesalers.

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.

PubEasy.com^TM is a registered trademark of PubEasy.com, Inc.