When Penguin’s PubEasy.com ecommerce web site goes live,
booksellers around the world will be provided access to daily updated
price and availability information on Penguin titles, and be able to
securely place and track orders over the Internet, 24 hours a day, 7
days a week directly with Penguin.
The full range of Penguin imprints will be represented, including
Allen Lane, Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph, Penguin, Penguin
Classics, Penguin Reference, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, Rough
Guides (in which Penguin is a majority share holder), Viking and
children’s imprints Puffin, Ladybird and Frederick Warne.
"In continuation of our total commitment to the customer, we
are embracing Pubeasy.com to provide additional services and
facilities that are now in common with the industry demands,"
said Alec Price of Penguin.
Penguin joins Bookpoint, Exel Logistics, HarperCollins Publishers
Ltd, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Littlehampton Book Services, Macmillan
Distribution Ltd, Marston Book Services and TBS/Grantham Book Services
as an Affiliate of the PubEasy.com ecommerce network. The PubEasy.com
service recently added its first "live" US Affiliate,
Broadman & Holman, trade publishing subsidiary of LifeWay
Christian Resources. Additional US Affiliate sites scheduled to launch
include Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Services (Henry Holt, St.
Martin’s Press and Farrar Straus & Giroux), and National Book
Network.
"We are very pleased that Penguin has decided to join
PubEasy.com. Access to the wide range of trade titles and imprints
that comprise the Penguin list will be welcomed by the many
booksellers who are choosing to do business over the Internet, through
PubEasy.com. Our service recently concluded a successful transition in
which we upgraded features and added new Affiliates in the UK and US.
Our growth continues as the PubEasy.com ecommerce community expands
into new territory. We welcome Penguin and look forward to working
together with all our partners as we grow to the next level."
Said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.com.