Dear colleagues,

As a follow up to our announcement earlier this year, I would like to
inform you that today BioOne and PCG announce the expansion of its sales
and marketing partnership. From January 2009, PCG will provide BioOne
with worldwide marketing, sales, and customer service, and has appointed
Jeff Downing to lead the program.

Both PCG and BioOne want to make sure that BioOne customers are well
informed about this forthcoming change. I've pasted an announcement with
more details below, and I or Mark Kurtz from BioOne would be very glad
to provide any additional information that you may need. Our contact
details are also below.

Best regards,

Douglas Wright
Executive Vice President
Publishers Communication Group, Inc.
a division of Publishing Technology
Tel: +1 617-395-4070
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BioOne and PCG expand marketing and sales partnership globally; 
PCG appoints Jeff Downing as Global Marketing and Sales Director for
BioOne

BioOne, the non-profit collaborative of high-impact bioscience
publications, and Publishers Communication Group (PCG), provider of
research, sales and marketing services to scholarly and professional
publishers, today announced the global expansion of their existing sales
and marketing partnership. From January 1, 2009, PCG, which has been
providing BioOne with North American sales and marketing services since
September, will provide exclusive worldwide marketing, sales
representation and library customer service for BioOne and its
prestigious publishing partners. 

Susan Skomal, BioOne's executive director and chief operating officer,
explains BioOne's decision to expand its relationship with PCG: "In this
globalized era, we need our marketing, sales and customer service
strategies to be consistently implemented such that local as well as
regional preferences are acknowledged. We are pleased to have found a
single partner that can provide this strategic service -
globally-coordinated but nonetheless localized to reflect varying
customer needs. PCG truly understands BioOne's mission."

"This extended agreement with BioOne will see PCG build on its existing
presence in a range of international markets including Latin America,
China and Japan," adds Douglas Wright, PCG's executive vice president.
"I'm very pleased to have Jeff Downing lead this growing global team;
his knowledge of BioOne's products and expertise in unifying diverse
business needs combine to ensure that we will scale our proven services
effectively to deliver global success for BioOne."

Jeff Downing, newly-appointed Global Marketing and Sales Director for
BioOne, joins the PCG team from sister division Ingenta where he served
as Library Services Director. He comments: "I'm looking forward to
furthering BioOne's collaboration with libraries throughout the world.
We're proud to be creating a global and coordinated support
infrastructure for the valuable research in which BioOne's publishing
partners invest." Jeff is now recruiting dedicated sales representatives
in Europe and Latin America, and will deploy PCG's extensive network of
representative agents to serve other key growth markets.

BioOne and PCG are working together to ensure a smooth transition and
wish to assure current subscribers that they will continue to receive
uninterrupted access to the BioOne databases. We encourage any existing
or potential subscribers with questions or concerns to contact either
PCG or BioOne for more information. 

 
For more information, please contact:
Douglas Wright
Publishers Communication Group, Inc.
Tel: +1 617-395-4070
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Mark Kurtz
BioOne
Tel: +1 202-296-2296
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About PCG
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Publishers Communication Group, Inc., a division of Publishing
Technology plc, is a full-service marketing and sales consulting firm
with locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Oxford, England. PCG was
established in 1989 as a resource for scholarly publishers to more
effectively work with the global library market. PCG offers qualitative
and quantitative marketing research, international multi-lingual
telemarketing services, UK- and US-based customer services operations,
sales representation, and strategic consulting.

About BioOne
www.bioone.org
Established in 2000, BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration
between scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private
sector, who seek a sustainable, mission-driven alternative to commercial
publishing. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of
the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of
BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial
publishers. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a
thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused
on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

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