Comments on: Publisher’s Weekly Summarizes The Antitrust Arguments http://antitrust.booklocker.com/publishers-weekly-summarizes-the-antitrust-arguments Information and updates on the Amazon BookSurge antitrust lawsuit Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:04:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: paul rix http://antitrust.booklocker.com/publishers-weekly-summarizes-the-antitrust-arguments/comment-page-1#comment-8791 paul rix Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:58:01 +0000 http://antitrust.booklocker.com/?p=15#comment-8791 paul rix wrote: > Hi Angie, Good luck with your case against Amazon. It seems as though they are going to try the same thing over here. Over my dead body! If they think they are going to use **** BookSurge to produce inferior copies of my books, just so they can make a few extra pennies per copy, they are sadly mistaken! I told one of their bosses this at a book festival recently, in front of quite a large crowd, mainly publishers. One of AuthorHouse's bosses backed me up. I was actually quite embarrassed by the cheer I got. I'm with you 100% Angie. The thing is, over here they can't print a single copy without the author's permission via his or her publisher. I own the copyright on my books and my publisher has a contract with Lightning Source to print the books, which they do very well and quickly. We don't actually sell many at all directly through amazon, indirectly by others who 'piggy back' on amazon, and usually discount below Amazon's price, yes. Many of these offer 2nd hand copies, which turn out to be new ones ordered as required from Lightning Source. The whole thing is a mess, with so many fly by nights trying to make a quick buck out of authors, thank heavens I got lucky and picked a good publisher at the start. paul rix wrote:
> Hi Angie,
Good luck with your case against
Amazon. It seems as though they are going to try the same thing over
here. Over my dead body! If they think they are going to use ****
BookSurge to produce inferior copies of my books, just so they can make a
few extra pennies per copy, they are sadly mistaken! I told one of their
bosses this at a book festival recently, in front of quite a large
crowd, mainly publishers. One of AuthorHouse’s bosses backed me up. I
was actually quite embarrassed by the cheer I got.

I’m with you 100% Angie. The thing is, over here they can’t print a
single copy without the author’s permission via his or her publisher. I
own the copyright on my books and my publisher has a contract with
Lightning Source to print the books, which they do very well and
quickly. We don’t actually sell many at all directly through amazon,
indirectly by others who ‘piggy back’ on amazon, and usually discount
below Amazon’s price, yes. Many of these offer 2nd hand copies, which
turn out to be new ones ordered as required from Lightning Source.

The whole thing is a mess, with so many fly by nights trying to
make a quick buck out of authors, thank heavens I got lucky and picked a
good publisher at the start.

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