Saturday, May 24, 2008

Follow the Amazon Anti-Trust Lawsuit

The plaintiff (Booklocker.com) in the Amazon/BookSurge anti-trust lawsuit is posting a chronicle of events at http://antitrust.booklocker.com.

Also, in comments published on this site and Booklocker's, a self-published author warns that when she attempted to close her account with an Amazon affiliate publisher and switch to another, they "retired" her title. When she protested, wanting the book entirely out of their hands, they said they would fully "remove" her book from Amazon's listings. But they didn't, so it's still there; it's just that nobody can buy it. When closing her account they "retired" the title of a book of hers that was almost in press, a move that made that title theirs; she fought and got it back, but only on a technicality. Now that's artificial difficulty! A crazy-making situation more than worthy of the May 2008 Artificial Difficulty Award.

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