White Plains, NY, October 11, 2000 . .PubEasy,
the Global Publishing e-Marketplace announced today plans to
introduce the new centrally hosted global service PubEasy/EXCHANGE
at the Frankfurt Book Fair. PubEasy/EXCHANGE enables small and medium
sized publishers, distributors and wholesalers (Affiliates) to easily
join PubEasy and trade with booksellers around the world. Each company
that joins the PubEasy/EXCHANGE service launches a full featured
PubEasy B2B "store front" with their own logo and presence
to all booksellers connected on the global PubEasy e-Marketplace.
PubEasy/EXCHANGE allows small and medium sized
Affiliates to trade directly and electronically with their bookselling
customers thereby increasing sales, saving time and significantly
reducing the high costs associated with launching a B2B e-commerce web
site. PubEasy/EXCHANGE is open to small companies regardless of their
geographic location. Booksellers can access PubEasy/EXCHANGE
Affiliates to check on up-to-date title, price and availability, place
orders and access e-Catalogs over the Internet on a 24 hour, 7-day per
week basis.
Booksellers who subscribe to PubEasy’s /TRANSACT premium
service for processing "batched" orders and inquiries can
also trade with PubEasy/EXCHANGE Affiliates.
"/EXCHANGE is the first global, Internet B2B service that
facilitates booksellers to do business directly with the small and
medium sized publishers who are traditionally hard to reach but
contribute greatly to each market’s sales volume." said Peter
F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy. "Booksellers want
a single point of access, a standard way of transacting over the web
and minimal frustration. PubEasy facilitates this on behalf of the
small and medium sized publishers who make up the fragmented segment
of the supply chain. Many publishers from around the world have come
to us and are seeking a fast, affordable global e-commerce solution
and can’t justify the high-costs of maintaining a complicated
in-house system. /EXCHANGE provides an outsourced, 24/7 hosted
solution that will also tie them into the PubEasy network of websites
and exposure to the rapidly growing PubEasy bookseller user
base."