Booksellers
Welcome AOL Time Warner to PubEasyŽ
PubEasy
Network Adds Another Market Leader
March
4, 2002…. PubEasyŽ,
the 24/7 online customer self-service center for the publishing
industry, today announced that AOL Time Warner Book Group (AOLTWBG)
titles are now available at http://pubeasy.books.aoltwbg.com/.
AOLTWBG’s imprints
include Warner Books and Little, Brown and Company.
These leading imprints 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 Fitchnch,
David Sedaris and Billie Letts) and popular commercial writers
(including Nicholas Sparks, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson
DeMille, Sandra Brown and Michael Connelly).
AOLTWBG also distributes for Microsoft Press, Hyperion,
Disney Publishing Worldwide, Harry N. Abrams, Time Inc Home
Entertainment and Arcade. Booksellers can
now place and track orders, and check price and availability, 24
hours a day, seven days a week, for
free.
"I
would like to thank AOL Time Warner for joining PubEasy. AOL Time
Warner already has very good service levels, but nothing compares to
PubEasy. With PubEasy I don't have to spend time checking basic
title and price information or placing orders by phone or fax.
I don't worry that the fax didn't reach the right party or
have to chase a sales rep around the country to follow through on
urgent orders. I can use PubEasy from anywhere and get quick order
confirmation. With leaders like AOL Time Warner, HarperCollins,
Random House and Holtzbrinck Publishers on PubEasy, why would a
bookseller or wholesaler not use PubEasy?" says Barbara Franzen,
Southern Book Service, a book wholesaler located in Miami, Florida,
"Through
joining PubEasy we will create a standard platform to allow our
customers around the world unprecedented access to product
information and ordering capability," says Larry Feldman,
AOLTWBG’s Vice President, Chief Information Officer. "We
welcome the opportunity to make the job of ‘bookbuying’ far
easier for our customers through an enhanced market presence via the
PubEasy community.”
“As
a bookseller, PubEasy continues to save me time and frustration.
It is incredibly beneficial to click from one Affiliate to
the next to check price and availability information and place
orders. PubEasy and its Affiliates continue to think of better ways to deal with
the down-to-earth realities booksellers face every day.
We’re excited to see AOL Time Warner on board and hope that many
more will follow,” states Robin J. Dunn, Store Manager, St.
John’s College (Annapolis, Maryland).
Gary
Bowman, Chief Operating Officer of PubEasy, states, “We are very
excited to have AOL on board. I’d
say more, but I believe our users have said it all.”
Over
8,500 registered booksellers from 110 countries around the world can
log on over the Internet to check price, availability and order
status, place orders and create online catalogs for AOLTWBG’s
10,000 titles. The AOLTWBG
site on PubEasy offers the /TRANSACT™ service, enabling
booksellers to "batch" price and availability inquiries,
order status inquiries and orders across the Internet for rapid
processing and acknowledgment. The service also offers carrier and
shipper links, personal pricing and market restriction information.