White Plains, NY, May 31, 2000 . . . Random House, Inc and
PubEasy.com™, the global Internet inquiry and ordering service,
today launched the Random House/PubEasy.com web site at http://pubeasy.books.randomhouse.com.
The Random House/PubEasy.com web site now provides booksellers
around the world with free access to title, price and availability
information, order placement and order status checking over the
Internet twenty-four hours a day, seven days-a-week for the frontlist
and backlist titles from all Random House, Inc. USA publishing
divisions and imprints.
"PubEasy.com is an important business tool for Random
House’s new Customer Operations Department," said Doug Masto,
Vice President, Field Sales Customer Operations. "We are pleased
to now offer our bookselling customers a way to leverage the Internet
to make routine inquiries, place orders, receive acknowledgements and
track the status of their orders."
Peter F. Clifton, PubEasy.com Chief Executive Officer, said,
"We are extremely pleased to be working with Random House, Inc.
and we believe that booksellers from all over the world will benefit
tremendously from this initiative. PubEasy.com now offers access to
both Random House US and Random House UK for business-to-business
trading over the Internet."
Random House Inc., founded in 1925, is the world's largest
English-language general trade book publisher. It includes an array of
prestigious imprints that publish some of the foremost writers of our
time--in hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio,
multimedia, and other formats. Random House, Inc is a division of the
Bertelsmann Book Group of Bertelsmann AG, one of the foremost media
companies in the world.