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Time Warner Trade Publishing Joins PubEasyŽ
Community
Online Customer Self-Service
Community Grows by Another 10,000 Titles
December 7, 2001 .
. . PubEasyŽ is pleased to announce that Time Warner Trade Publishing
Inc (TWTP) is joining the PubEasy network and intends to be live on
the service early first quarter 2002, adding another 10,000 titles to
the PubEasy community. Over 7,000 registered booksellers from 110
countries around the world will be able to log on over the Internet to
check price, availability and order status, place orders and create
online catalogs for TWTP’s 10,000 titles.
"Through joining PubEasy we will create a
uniform platform to allow our customers around the world unprecedented
access to product information and ordering capability," says
Larry Feldman, TWTP’s VP of Operations. "We welcome the
opportunity to make the job of ‘bookbuying’ far easier for our
customers through an enhanced market presence via the PubEasy
community."
TWTP’s imprints include Warner Books and Little, Brown and
Company. Warner Books and Little Brown publish newsmakers (like Jack
Welch and Andy Grove), leading theorists (such as Malcolm Gladwell,
author of The Tipping Point), literary success stories (like Anita
Shreve, Janet Fitch, David Sedaris and Billie Letts) and popular
commercial writers (including Nicholas Sparks, James Patterson, David
Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, Sandra Brown and Michael Connelly). Little
Brown and Company and Warner Books placed 37 books on The New York
Times bestseller lists in 2000, and have already placed 37 books
this year. Publishers distributed by TWTP include Microsoft Press,
Hyperion, Disney Publishing Worldwide, Harry N. Abrams and Arcade.
"We regularly survey our users to identify
publishers they would like to see added to the PubEasy network, and
great interest was expressed in bringing TWTP on board," says
Gary Bowman, Chief Operating Officer of PubEasy. "The PubEasy
community just keeps growing. Publishers can now directly reach a
broad global market of booksellers much easier and much more
efficiently than in the past. Booksellers can also easily widen their
title base, ordering both from market-leaders like TWTP, HarperCollins
and Random House to niche publishers such as Boydell & Brewer and
Wessex Astrologer. We are delighted to have reached this stage."
The TWTP site on PubEasy will offer the latest PubEasy
enhancements, including the /TRANSACT™ service, which enables
booksellers from anywhere in the world to "batch" price and
availability inquiries, order status inquiries and orders across the
Internet for rapid processing and acknowledgement. It will also offer
carrier and shipper links, personal pricing and market restriction
information as well as the ability for booksellers to create and
modify their own e-Catalogs on the TWTP site on PubEasy.
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