Southern
Book Service Breaking New Ground with PubEasyŽ
First
US Wholesaler Goes Live on PubEasy Network
September
12, 2002…. PubEasyŽ,
the 24/7 online
customer self-service center for the publishing industry, is pleased
to announce that Southern Book Service, a leading full-line books
wholesaler, is the newest PubEasy Affiliate to go live.
Southern Book Service offers over 50,000 titles in a wide variety of
categories including regional, ethnic, foreign language, audio books
and “how to” guides, as well as The
New York Times Bestsellers, Classics, Oprah Selects, reference
books, and standard back-list titles, of which 7,000 of their
top-selling titles will be available on PubEasy.
For booksellers, the addition of an US-based wholesaler to
the PubEasy community will extensively broaden the range of available
titles, including best-selling authors and titles from publishers
not currently on the PubEasy system.
To commemorate this milestone, Southern Book Service is
offering special savings to all PubEasy Users.
Like all PubEasy Affiliates, Southern Book
Service will be able to offer booksellers the ability to place
orders, inquire about stock, find pricing, and check delivery status
24 hours a day over the Internet. Bruce Sardinia, Southern Book
Service, comments, “Becoming a PubEasy Affiliate was an easy
decision for us. As a
wholesaler, we have actively used PubEasy to conduct business with
our publisher customers and are impressed with the convenience of
the service. It makes sense for us to offer that same utility to our
clients.”
Sardinia continues, “As a PubEasy
Affiliate, Southern Book Service will now provide our international
and domestic customers the same 24/7 standardized platform we have
been taking advantage of for the past 2 years.”
An additional benefit for Southern Book Service will be their increased
accessibility to their international clients.
“PubEasy provides an opportunity for Southern Book Service
to showcase the expansive collection of top-selling titles they
carry to over 9,500 users in 110 countries,” comments Gary
Bowman, COO of PubEasy. “We
are ecstatic to see wholesalers recognizing the benefit in becoming
an Affiliate of PubEasy and welcome Southern Book Service to the
PubEasy community.”
PubEasy
continues to play a vital role in streamlining supply chain
processes, using the Internet to connect booksellers, publishers,
distributors and wholesalers.
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