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To: H James Morris who wrote (28852)	12/3/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

New Book Search Engine, Seekbooks.com, Hits The Internet, Giving Small Publishers Big Advantage SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A small book promotion company in Southwest Florida is positioned to make big waves in the current rocky book selling market. Seekbooks.com(TM) -- an innovative niche search engine devoted totally to books, is set to sail mid-December, offering small- to mid- sized publishers and self-published authors a bigger sea in which to swim with the sharks. "Seekbooks revolutionizes the way books are being distributed and sold," said Doug DeGroot, creator of the search engine and president of Book Promotion, Inc., an industry innovator in promoting self-published authors and their books. "By cutting out the costs of distribution, bricks and mortar, end- sellers, and the endless chain of middlemen, the Seekbooks system gives authors and publishers back 60 percent of their profit on each book." As the giant publishers, distributors and booksellers continue to douse the chances of smaller companies struggling to stay afloat, DeGroot said he will continue to fight for independents. Seekbooks' direct marketing approach not only gives small guys big profits, but uncovers a world of books to readers that, before Seekbooks, would end up gathering dust in a warehouse, or even worse, dumped in the local landfill. "Book consumers don't realize that what they see in Barnes & Noble or on Amazon.com is only about 20 percent of the 60,000 books published each year," DeGroot said. Now "bibliophiles" and "seekers-of-the-unique" can get their book-fix with one simple step: type www.seekbooks.com . Instantly, a virtual library at their fingertips offers 5,000 author/publisher web sites featuring hundreds of thousands of titles. Getting lost in the current Yahoo and Excite search engines is a thing of the past for book buyers. Immediate gratification in finding and buying a book (at a discounted price) and getting it shipped within 48 hours is now a reality with Seekbooks. "The book industry has a severely broken system," DeGroot said. "The reader is really being denied access to about 80 percent of the books written out there. And the poor authors and small publishers, who've poured their hearts and souls and money into these books, which are often excellent pieces of literature, have no chance to compete. "Seekbooks creates a win-win situation," DeGroot said. "We're the missing link to profits for publishers, and we uncover the world for readers." SOURCE Book Promotion, Inc., CO: Book Promotion, Inc., ST: Florida IN: PUB MLM SU: PDT 12/02/98 15:21 EST prnewswire.com