Comments on: Washington AG Says Talk to Feds About Amazon and BookSurge

By: Gonzalo Barr :: Amazon's POD Grab Part 3

Gonzalo Barr :: Amazon's POD Grab Part 3 — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:34:06 +0000

[...] The entire post with the email from the Washington AG is here. [...]

By: Might Makes Right - Amazon/Booksurge/Nation

Might Makes Right - Amazon/Booksurge/Nation — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:25:25 +0000

[...] own Anne Wayman, who sells her books on Amazon, received a response from the Washington State Attorney General (Amazon’s Home Office is in Wash.) that goes a [...]

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:07:17 +0000

yeah, Mark, I know… first of all, I think the Washington AG was probably delighted to boot this to the feds…

Second, as I understand the damn thing, and I’m not at all sure I do, when I use some pod printer other than booksurge I have (am required) to keep Amazon in 5 copies if I’m to sell… that isn’t as easy as it sounds. I think I’d have to buy them and ship them… or maybe I’d buy them and my pod printer would ship them, but you know who has to track, and pay… my hunch is that if my book runs out at Amazon… all 5 copies are sold, it will come off the web sales floor until I ship another 5 copies… and there’s nothing there about notifying… of course, I can buy 1,000 copies…

My book, which has been on Amazon for ages, I’ve never had to track how many copies Amazon has… neither has my pod printer… amazon has ordered. That’s a huge difference.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:32:32 +0000

Ya’ know Anne, writing is one thing – reading is another (trying to make a joke here). It says;

“No, there is no request for exclusivity. Any publisher can use Amazon’s POD service just for those units that ship from Amazon and continue to use a different POD service provider for distribution through other channels.”

The friggin’ exclusivity is right there!!! Just for those units that ship from Amazon! And a different one for everything else. I mean, what the he** do they not understand about exclusivity???

Arrrrrggghhhh!!!!!