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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

June 3rd, 2008

Angela Hoy Talks About Amazon/BookSurge

Angela Hoy Angela Hoy, Publisher of BookLocker and Publisher and Editor of WritersWeekly.com, and our heroine who has launched a class action suit against Amazon over the online bookstore’s insistence that self-publishers use their POD printer, BookSurge, was interviewed by Publishing Insiders along with Eric Kampmann, Founder President of Beaufort Books and CEO of Midpoint […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

May 22nd, 2008

BookLocker Begins Class Action Against Amazon

BookLocker Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon.com is the headline at BookLocker’s new blog, Amazon BookSurge Antitrust Lawsuit Clearinghouse, devoted to the suit.
The suit is, of course, in response to Amazon.com’s efforts to make print on demand publishers who wish to be listed on the online bookseller’s site use their POD printer, BookSurge, exclusively. You’ll […]

By Anne Wayman -- 6 comments

April 29th, 2008

What Should We Do About Amazon?

I’m feeling conflicted about Amazon right now. I remember when the online bookstore was scrappy and innovative. In fact, one year they sent me a travel mug as a thanks, and another time they sent me something like 10 postage stamps.
We’re along way from when folks predicted founder Jeff Bezos would flat out fail. In […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

April 24th, 2008

Washington AG Says Talk to Feds About Amazon and BookSurge

I got this emailed response from the Washington State Attorney General’s office in response to my concern about Amazon’s change in policy regarding how they will handle books not printed by their own POD printer BookSurge:
Dear Ms. Wayman:
The Washington Attorney General’s Antitrust Division has received many complaints regarding the new “print on demand” or […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments