Buzz, Balls & Hype (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Amazon's Booksurge just won a major defamation case; the court ruled that a print on demand publisher isn't liable for defamation because it essentially doesn't have an editor. Jeffrey Neuburger recently wrote an article about the case that's worth reading....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
There was an interesting post on the Media Shift websiter earlier this week about a defamation case involving BookSurge , Amazon.com 's print-on-demand service. Basically, when some teenager in Maine got herself convicted of a hate crime against another cheerleader, the first girl's parents wrote a book about the whole sordid mess and published it through BookSurge, so the second girl sued the family,...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
BookSurge is an Amazon-owned vanity press. Since when does anybody, including Slashdot, waste time reviewing self-published books?
PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Mike Shatzkin and I were intereviewed for an article published by SNL/Kagan about Amazon.com's relationship with publishers in light of the Hachette UK situation, Booksurge and the Kindle. Excerpt: Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the publishing advisory firm The Idea Logical Co., said in a June 26 interview with SNL Kagan that Amazon is likely not getting those titles from publishers for under $9.99...
PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
No doubt Chelsea Green publishing thought they had come up with a reasonable marketing concept when they agreed to POD their upcoming Obama title ( Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency ) with Booksurge and offer Amazon a three week exclusive sales window. Whether this promotion had its genesis in an inefficient editorial and manufacturing process...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Has it really been nearly a year since the last time I wrote about Isobella Jade , the model who wrote a memoir at the Apple Store ? I got an email from her last week; apparently, after self-publishing the book through Amazon.com 's BookSurge program, she secured a book deal in the United Kingdom with The Friday Project , a formerly indie British press which partnered with HarperCollins earlier this...
A Book Blogger's Diary (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
** This Book Review is part of Pump Up Your Book Promotion's Virtual Blog Tour for Kamilla Reid ** The Questory of Root Karbunkulus: Item One - The Miist Author: Kamilla Reid Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 316 pages Publisher: BookSurge Publishing Synopsis In the village of Charm, Root Karbunkulus is an ordinary teenage girl living in a horrid halfhouse, used as an unpaid slave by her two grotesque...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
LOS ANGELES, CA — Jeff Bezos pitched the Kindle to attendees at Book Expo America today in downtown LA, and then sat down with Wired editor and author of The Long Tail Chris Anderson for a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
SB Sarah posted about the new antitrust lawsuit filed by publisher Booklocker against Amazon. Booklocker is asking for class action status. The suit alleges an unlawful tying arrangement between Amazon's bookstore and Amazon's printing arm (Booksurge). We discussed a tying suit briefly in the comments when the news of Amazon's requirement to use its [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
O'Reilly programming chair and tech writer Allison Randal is fed up with Amazon.com 's attempt to crush print-on-demand competitors by forcing authors and publishers to participate in its Booksurge program if they want to sell their POD books on the site. That's why she's no longer buying from the site : "I realize my spending is a tiny drop in the bucket of Amazon's total revenue, but it's a decision...
The Daily Brief: Military Musings (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Just when I was beginning to think the whole Amazon-Booksurge-POD imbroglio was dying down, now it begins again. Angela and Richard Hoy of Booklocker.com have filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon. Com (details here) I had begun to hope that Amazon had seen the error of their ways, deafened by the level [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
BookLocker, one of many print-on-demand (POD) publishers who are threatened by Amazon's move to vertically integrate POD with online sales by priveleging authors who publish with Amazon subsidiary... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Red Ferret Journal (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
A new class action suit against Amazon alleging anti-trust violations has just been filed over the company's requirement that print on demand publishers use its in-house service BookSurge. Hmm…getting sued by your constituency is not great business practice, wonder if they'll work that out sooner rather than later? Amazon's March announcement that POD publishers would be [...] 155 words | email this...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Amazon's March announcement that POD publishers would be required to use Amazon's own POD service BookSurge in order to sell books directly on Amazon's site predictably rubbed quite a few folks the wrong way. (Technically speaking, publishers can use alternative POD providers, but must then provide Amazon with an inventory of at least five books, and the ability to offer...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
"Today a class action lawsuit was filed in response to Amazon's threat to remove the ‘Buy’ buttons of publishers who refuse to sign up with their on-demand printing subsidiary, Booksurge. If certified, the class action will most likely include all publishers who use on demand printing to print their books for distribution." - Morris [...]
