Leading UK wholesaler now offers booksellers
worldwide state-of-the-art e-commerce services
Somerset, NJ, October 5, 1999 . . . Gardners Books, Britain’s
leading wholesaler, and PubEasy.com, the global Internet inquiry and
ordering service, announced today the launch of the Gardners/PubEasy.com
website at http://pubeasy.books.gardners.com. The site is available to
all booksellers with a PubEasy.com password and provides access to
Gardners for title, price and availability checks, to place orders and
to track the status of orders on a 24 hour, 7 day per week basis over
the Internet.
Gardners Books, located in Eastbourne, England maintains a physical
stock holding of over 210,000 titles from 1,700 UK based publishers
and imprints. These titles are dispatched on the same day the order is
received. Booksellers in the UK receive titles the next day and
overseas orders are sent to international shippers within 24 hours of
order placement. In addition, Gardners offers a Special Order Service
supplying any British, American or German title in print
(approximately 2.5 million titles), which Gardners will ship to
booksellers anywhere in the world.
Booksellers who search on the PubEasy.com/Whitaker bibliographic
website will now see daily updated title information held in stock at
Gardners with links for Teleordering or a link to the Gardners/PubEasy.com
website for direct ordering and order tracking.
"Gardners Books is committed to embracing state of the art
systems and technologies for the use of our customers. PubEasy.com has
made excellent progress establishing its Internet service, which
connects booksellers and suppliers over the Internet. We think it’s
an important place to be," said Bob Jackson, Commercial Director
of Gardners.
"The launch of Gardners’ PubEasy.com website is a
significant and exciting step forward," said Peter F. Clifton,
Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.com. "PubEasy.com offers
bookstores direct access to an increasing majority of publishers and
distributors and now access to one of the UK's leading wholesalers.
The significance of Gardners joining PubEasy.com is tremendous for
booksellers anywhere in the world who may want to source books
directly from a leading wholesaler."
The Gardners Books/PubEasy.com website launch follows the recent
launch of Penguin UK’s website that went live August 2nd,
1999.