White Plains, NY, March 31, 2000 . . . PubEasy.com™,
the global Internet inquiry and ordering service for the book industry
announced today that Random House, Inc., the world’s largest
English-language general trade book publisher, will launch a
PubEasy.com e-commerce web site and join the fast-growing PubEasy.com
community of booksellers and their suppliers. The site is scheduled to
go online by June 2000.
Random House, Inc., the English-language book
publishing division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world’s leading
media companies, is home to many leading publishing divisions and
imprints in the US and in the UK, where its sister company, Random
House UK Ltd., is already represented on PubEasy.com through the TBS/GBS
PubEasy.com web site.
When the Random House PubEasy.com web site goes
live this summer, the entire Random House US title file will be
available to registered booksellers with a PubEasy.com password.
Booksellers who wish to receive a free PubEasy.com password simply log
on to the Internet and go to http://register.pubeasy.com. All
booksellers and distributors will be able to check price and
availability, to place orders, and to track the status of their orders
twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from anywhere over the
Internet.
"We are extremely pleased that Random House is
joining PubEasy.com," said Peter Clifton, Chief Executive Officer
of PubEasy.com. "The Random House PubEasy.com web site will
greatly expand the scope of our US initiative that now includes the
recently-launched Holtzbrinck Publishers PubEasy.com site, National
Book Network, AIDC and Lifeway. We look forward to supporting Random
House’s commitment to state-of-the-art service to their
customers."