Somerset, NJ, November 19, 1999 . . . PubEasy.com, the global
Internet inquiry and ordering service, announced today plans to
develop a new service designed to allow small publishers, distributors
and wholesalers (Affiliates) from anywhere in the world to participate
on PubEasy.com through a new "hub" website. The new site
will be linked to all other PubEasy.com Affiliate websites that
participate in the PubEasy.com community. The new site will be called
/EXCHANGE.
/EXCHANGE will provide participating small Affiliates with
standardized messaging, file transfer formats and other technologies
to enable pooling of title, price and availability information as well
to accept and process orders through the /EXCHANGE site. Booksellers
with a PubEasy.com password will have centralized access to the site
for inquiry and ordering services.
/EXCHANGE will be open to small Affiliates regardless of their
geography and will reflect global participation. /EXCHANGE will also
enable small publisher and distributor Affiliates to interface with
the new payment reconciliation service, BATCH.CO.UK which is being
jointly developed with the Booksellers Association in the UK.
/EXCHANGE will be a fully branded PubEasy.com website reflecting
the same standards of user interface and functionality which have now
been supported and endorsed by the industry. Small publishers and
distributors are watching as larger companies expand rapidly into the
world of e-business and consolidate their trading on the PubEasy.com
community. As e-business rapidly reshapes business-to-business trading
across the global supply chain, all companies need solutions to
participate, regardless of size.
"/EXCHANGE is a service concept we have been working on for
some time now," said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of
PubEasy.com. "PubEasy.com has achieved significant progress in
developing its e-commerce infrastructure. Our mission is to build a
fully deployed vertical e-business portal in the publishing industry
and this is rapidly being adopted and supported. Over
the past year, we have listened to different segments of the
marketplace and specifically, small companies from all over the world
have asked us to deploy a solution so that they could participate on
PubEasy.com. These companies are seeking an outsourced, 24 X 7 hosted
solution that will also tie them into the PubEasy.com network of
websites and exposure to the rapidly growing PubEasy.com bookseller
User base. We intend for /EXCHANGE to deliver this service. Our
position is such that we are not restricted by geography or language
and can therefore support this end of the market effectively."