Publishing Marketing Services and Pansing Distribution live on IBS Bookmaster 7.3 and 13-digit compliant

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Publishing Marketing Services Pte Ltd and Pansing Distribution Pte Ltd are the latest IBS Bookmaster Asian customers to successfully upgrade to IBS Bookmaster 7.3 and ensure they are 13-digit ISBN compliant.

With 13-digit ISBN coming into effect in early 2007, IBS Publishing customers around the world have been upgrading to IBS Bookmaster 7.3 to ensure they are compliant to the new standard.

“We have been working with all of our publishing customers throughout 2006 to ensure they are ready to handle 13-digit ISBN’s in 2007,” said Chor Chye Ng, General Manager IBS Bookmaster, IBS Singapore. “PMS went live with IBS Bookmaster 7.3 in early October. Pansing then followed in November and we expect the remaining Asian customers to successfully upgrade by early next year.”

Publishing Marketing Services, an IBS Bookmaster customer since 1999, is a leading distributor of books, audiovisual and multimedia products. From its offices in Singapore and Malaysia, it supplies retailers, specialty stores and libraries across the entire ASEAN region with products from more than 40 publishers worldwide. It also provides professional library services such as processing shelf-ready books, cataloguing and consultancy to public, school and institutional libraries.

Pansing Distribution Pte Ltd is a leading book distributor with a wide distribution network across Asia, which it services primarily from its offices in Singapore and Malaysia. Pansing Distribution has been using IBS Bookmaster since 1999 and is part of the Times Publishing Group, a major publishing and printing group in Asia Pacific with a network of offices in the USA, Europe, Australia and throughout Asia.

IBS Bookmaster 7.3 was released in April, 2006 and is the official release that will enable publishing customers to become 13-digit compliant. Customers will also have access to additional functionality as a result of upgrading to release 7.3, such as significant warehouse enhancements, improved forecasting features, increased e-Commerce functionality and the new Book Clubs module.

For more information, please contact:

Chor Chye Ng General Manager IBS Bookmaster, IBS Singapore Tel: +65 6221 93000 chorchye.ng@ibsap.com

Edith Crnkovich Marketing Manager, IBS Australia Tel: +61 2 9761 9222 edith.crnkovich@ibsaustralia.com

IBS is a world-leading provider of automated solutions for publishers and book distributors with editorial and production, royalties, subscriptions, e-commerce, warehouse management, financials and business intelligence key components. IBS delivers measurable value through its industry-specific software, services and hardware offerings. Cambridge University Press, Gyldendal/NBC, HarperCollins, Harvard University Press, LexisNexis, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education and Penguin Books are among IBS’ 5,000 customers in 40 countries.

IBS corporate headquarters: +46-8-627 2300 info@ibsbookmaster.com