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White Plains, NY, March 22, 2001 . . . EnviroCrime Publishers and PubEasy The Global Publishing e-Marketplace, today announced that EnviroCrime 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 EnviroCrime’s own PubEasy web site for title, price and availability information, electronic order placement, and e-Catalog access. EnviroCrime have recently launched a series of eco-thrillers, including their debut title, "Countdown In Alaska". Other titles will be launched shortly, including "Worst Case Scenario".

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™ is a tremendous strategic marketing tool for an emerging publisher like EnviroCrime that needs to generate worldwide visibility and revenue opportunities to new markets that we couldn’t reach with traditional methods," commented Linda LoPinto, Publisher of EnviroCrime. "/EXCHANGE enables our customer base to use the Internet for 24/7-customer self-service on a global e-business platform, which is a real competitive advantage."

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 EnviroCrime 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.