PubEasy UK Central Services Completes Integration with Batch Services
 
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PubEasy UK Central Services Completes Integration with Batch Services

New Providence, N.J. - September 27, 2006 - PubEasy®, the global enquiry and ordering service for the book industry, is pleased to announce the completion of integration between PubEasy UK Central Services and Batch. Users can now switch seamlessly from viewing order details in UK PubEasy Central Services to viewing invoice and payment details in Batch. 

Individual UK affiliates will be adding this functionality to their PubEasy home pages over the next few months.

“This new functionality will be an enormous help to booksellers who are dealing with invoice queries because they can now see both order and invoice information simultaneously,” said Liz McNaughton, PubEasy European Sales Manager. “Booksellers can now answer all their questions -- in one session -- improving their ability to reconcile invoices and fitting both services more seamlessly into their workflow.”

Fraser Tanner, Managing Director of Batch said, "Integrating PubEasy and Batch offers booksellers significantly improved online order management capabilities. It is also a major step toward realizing the vision of an integrated electronic supply chain in the publishing industry."

For retailers who would like to become a PubEasy member, registration is available on-line at no charge by visiting www.pubeasy.com. Batch Invoice and Return services are also offered to retailers free of charge and registration information is available online at www.batch.co.uk.

About Batch
The batch.co.uk service is wholly owned by The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland. The system has been designed to help the book trade reduce overheads in the supply chain by improving communication between suppliers and their customers and providing organisations of all sizes the opportunity of the advantages of trading electronically.

Batch provides a single payment solution. Booksellers make a single payment that covers payments to all their suppliers. Suppliers receive a single payment from all their customers. Visit the Batch website at www.batch.co.uk. 

About PubEasy
PubEasy is a division of Bowker, the world's leading source for bibliographic information. PubEasy offers thousands of publisher imprints and millions of titles to over 16,000 booksellers in 110 countries. Publishers, distributors and wholesalers join PubEasy to get exposure to a large universe of potential clients, while increasing the ease with which those booksellers can conduct business with their suppliers. Visit the PubEasy web site at www.pubeasy.com to learn more.

About Bowker
Bowker is the world's leading source for bibliographic information. The company provides searching, analytical, promotional, and ordering services to publishers, booksellers, libraries, and patrons through national and international brands, including: Books In Print®, Global Books In Print®, Syndetic Solutions™, Pubnet®, PubEasy®, PubTrack™, AquaBrowser®, and more. In the U.S., Australia and Puerto Rico, Bowker is also the exclusive ISBN and SAN Agency and a DOI registration agency for the publishing industry. Bowker is headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey, with operations in East Grinstead, England, and Port Melbourne, Australia. For more company details, please visit www.Bowker.com.