11/17/2009 - Quayside Publishing Group to Publish Web-Based Catalogs via Edelweiss Interactive Publisher Catalogs

Ann Arbor, MI – November 17, 2009 – Above the Treeline is pleased to announce that Quayside Publishing Group has selected Edelweiss, Above the Treeline’s interactive publisher catalog system, to publish their substantial frontlist and backlist catalogs on the web.  With the addition of more than 350 Quayside frontlist titles and over 5,000 Quayside backlist titles, Edelweiss’ web-based publisher catalogs will encompass more than 35,000 titles across 450 imprints from 18 publishers.

Retailers, librarians, publicists, and other end users of publisher catalogs are now able to review Quayside’s Spring 2010 titles via Edelweiss.

Ken Fund, President and CEO of the Quayside Publishing Group considers Edelweiss to be the ideal catalog solution for their nine imprints and many distributed titles and for their extensive list of domestic and international, retail and wholesale customers.  “No longer will the specs in our catalog be out of date the minute we’re off press. Our Edelweiss online catalog is a dynamic tool that can be tailored specifically to the right markets and to the specific needs of our sales and marketing teams; whether it’s to create a rights-specific mailing to an international customer, or a niche mailing to a specialty account.”

 “We are very excited to have Quayside on board the Edelweiss system,” said Treeline CEO John Rubin. “They represent some of the best in non-fiction publishing today.  This addition to Edelweiss strengthens its value both to the many book industry professionals who rely upon Edelweiss and to all of the participating publishers.”

Quayside (pronounced key•side) represents a dynamic group of publishing imprints dedicated to providing quality and excellence to its readers. The Quayside Publishing Group encompasses Creative Publishing international, Fair Winds Press, Motorbooks, MVP Books, Quarry Books, Quiver Books, Rockport Publishers, Voyageur Press, Zenith Press and Quayside Distribution Services. They also distribute Walter Foster, RotoVision and Book Sales, Inc. titles.

Above the Treeline is North America’s leading provider of collaboration-based business intelligence for the book industry.  Their newest tool, Edelweiss, is an on-line interactive publisher catalog service that enhances or replaces the use of traditional hard copy publisher catalogs.  With features such as keyword search, interior images, twitter and blog tracking, title tags, and others, Edelweiss goes far beyond simple posted PDF’s to provide a buying and research tool that cannot be matched with hard copy catalogs.  Edelweiss is free to retailers and other catalog readers, requires no prior Above the Treeline affiliation, and interfaces with most bookstore POS systems.

For more information please contact:
Above the Treeline
120 W. Washington
Ann Arbor, MI

Tel:       734-996-2730        
Fax:      734-996-2790

Email: info@abovethetreeline.com

edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com

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