White Plains, NY , August 2, 1999 . . . Penguin Books (UK)
and PubEasy.com, the global Internet inquiry and ordering service,
today launched the Penguin PubEasy.com web site at http://pubeasy.books.penguin.co.uk.
Access is free to all Penguin bookselling customers and Penguin titles
will now be linked from the Whitaker PubEasy.com web site.
Penguin’s PubEasy.com web site now provides booksellers around
the world with access to title, price availability, order status
checking and order placement over the Internet 24 hours a day, 7
days-a-week. Booksellers will also be able to access virtual
catalogs of featured titles and link to Penguin’s marketing web site
for enriched title descriptions and book jackets.
The full range of Penguin imprints, 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, will be available on their
PubEasy.com site.
With the addition of Penguin, who was elected the UK 1998 Publisher
of the Year, PubEasy.com now provides online access to the major trade
publishers including: HarperCollins, Random House, Little, Brown and
others, via the PubEasy.com network.
"Improved service to our customers is one of the key drivers
to Penguin’s success now and in the future and PubEasy.com is a
superb example both of a practical and innovative use of
e-commerce," remarked Andrew Welham, Penguin’s Group Sales and
Marketing Director.
"We are extremely pleased to have Penguin’s support,
" said Peter F. Clifton, Chief Executive Officer of PubEasy.com.
"The addition of 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. The number of registered users continues to
grow and will accelerate as other companies, including Gardners and
Wiley, launch PubEasy.com sites in the coming months."