
Participating
customers have access to our title data for price and availability queries, are able to
query their past orders and can enter orders directly into our computer system. This
provides them with 24-hour-a-day access to data. This service is completely free
except for the local telephone call charges to your Internet provider.
A central PubEasy
site allows access to all the other participating book distributors sites as well as
providing centralised price and availability and ordering.
If you want to
access the site via the Internet please contact PubEasy direct via their website at www.Pubeasy.com.
PubEasy FAQs now available.
PubEasy and
Batch.co.uk have now integrated
their systems so that customers can manage the entire order fulfilment
process and payment process from one place. MDL see this as a major
development in the quest for electronic transactions as we move ever closer
to e4books day because
the customer now has a virtual one-stop shop to carry out all of these
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MDL already communicates with many leading customers and
suppliers using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) systems, reducing errors on
transcription and removing barriers to speedy processing. It is our aim to offer a good
spread of electronic ordering facilities, to make electronic ordering as easy and
straightforward as possible. We are a committed user of
BookNet Teleordering and
BookNet EDI Services.
MDL was the first major
distributor to install BookNet electronic trading sercices
which is now
available via BookData Online – providing access to bibliographic data,
sales ranking (from BookScan) and online ordering and tracking in one
service. Other distributors and wholesalers have also joined the
service.
Nielsen BookData Online
provides UK and overseas booksellers with a fully interactive exchange
of information combining BookNet TeleOrdering with BookData
bibliographic search facilities, ordering, order tracking for up to 6
months and real time supplier data. Nielsen Book’s services: BookData
Online, BookNet TeleOrdering and EDI services give booksellers the
ability to manage their orders online from their PCs.
To receive more
information on electronic ordering facilities via EDI email
email. |