White Plains, NY, June 30, 2000 . . . PubEasy.com™
and HarperCollins UK announced today that all Simon & Schuster UK
titles are now available via the HarperCollins (UK) PubEasy.com
website (http://pubeasy.books.harpercollins.co.uk),
facilitated by the newly established distribution arrangements for
Simon and Schuster UK by HarperCollins Distribution. In addition,
Simon & Schuster US titles are available to European customers and
to UK customers where rights are available.
Registered booksellers with a PubEasy.com password
will be able to use the HarperCollins PubEasy.com site to access
information on some 10,000 Simon & Schuster titles from imprints
including Pocket, Earthlight, Free Press, Scribner and Simon &
Schuster Childrens. Title, price and availability inquiries, order
status inquiries and order placement can now be conducted online,
twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from anywhere over the
Internet. Booksellers who wish to receive a free PubEasy.com password
simply log on to the Internet and go to http://register.pubeasy.com.
"We are extremely pleased that via our
PubEasy.com web site, booksellers will now have access to Simon &
Schuster’s varied and prestigious range of titles in addition to
HarperCollins titles," said Mark Williams, HarperCollins’
Supply Chain Director. "HarperCollins’ investment in the
PubEasy.com website allows us to offer our distribution clients the
benefits and efficiencies of online customer self-service."