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SAGE Joins PubEasy Book Ordering Service
Booksellers Now Able to Obtain Realtime Book Price, Availability and Order Status From SAGE via Industry's Leading Online Book Inquiry and Ordering Service
| Source: Bowker
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ--(Marketwire - January 26, 2009) - PubEasy®, the global inquiry and
ordering service for the book industry, today announced that SAGE has
joined the PubEasy community of booksellers and suppliers.
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and
electronic media for academic, educational and professional markets. As a
new PubEasy member, SAGE's catalog of 11,000 titles will now be available
to retail booksellers for purposes of checking price and availability on
various book titles and tracking the status of book orders.
"SAGE is a highly regarded global publisher and we're gratified that they
have made the decision to join the growing international community of
PubEasy affiliate partners," said Charles Halpin, director of market
development for PubEasy, a business unit of New Providence, N.J.-based
Bowker. "Retailers who rely on PubEasy to research, check orders and track
deliveries will welcome the addition of SAGE to the PubEasy community,
which will significantly enhance the efficiency with which they're able to
inquire about the availability of titles from the entire SAGE catalog."
"We at SAGE, Corwin Press and Pine Forge Press are so happy to add the
order tracking capabilities offered by PubEasy to our customers," said
David Horwitz, vice president of sales for SAGE. "The ability to check the
status of an order 24/7 is important, and we appreciate the help that
Bowker provided to us in making this enhancement a reality for our
clients."
SAGE joins a growing number of academic publishers who are making their
catalogs available on PubEasy, including McGraw-Hill, Bedford, Freeman &
Worth, and Chicago Distribution Services, which includes the University of
Chicago Press among its 70 academic press distribution clients.
About PubEasy
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. PubEasy is a strategic business unit of
Bowker, the world's leading source for bibliographic and data analysis
information. Please visit the PubEasy website at www.pubeasy.com to learn
more.
Bowker provides searching, analytical, promotional, business intelligence
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™ 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.
About SAGE
Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of
scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of
subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science,
technology, and medicine. A privately owned corporation, SAGE has principal
offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London, New Delhi and Singapore.
For more information, please go to www.sagepublications.com.