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AuthorHouse agrees to Amazon POD demands

22.04.08

Author Solutions, the Indiana-based parent company of subsidy publishers AuthorHouse and iUniverse, has acceded to Amazon.com’s recent demands that publishers’ print-on-demand titles be printed by BookSurge, Amazon.com’s POD subsidiary, if they wish to continue to make these titles available for sale on Amazon.com, according to sources quoted by Publishers Weekly.

Kevin Gray, Author Solutions public relations manager, referred to a written statement posted on the company’s website by Kevin Weiss, Author Solutions c.e.o.

In the statement on the “current Amazon/Booksurge situation", addressed to Author Solutions’s current and potential customers, Weiss said he is “clearly stating our position", but added that Author Solutions did not believe that it is “ever in your interest to limit choice", that the company did not “anticipate any change to the current availability of our titles on Amazon, either in the short or the long term" and that it would “fight anything that is done to limit choice, increase cost, or weaken the industry that together we’ve worked so hard to build".

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By June Austin

Well Kevin Weiss is right there - he is clearly stating his position in that he is not prepared to stand up to these bullies and show them up for who and what they are. Sadly I am not altogether surprised at this decision, since several other POD publishers - Xlibris/I-Universe for one - have already bowed down. With Authorhouse it was always a foregone conclusion anyway - the decision is borne from their own greed in charging their authors for uploading their books to Amazon when it doesn't actually cost them a bean. They had no choice then - they had to bow down or risk being sued by authors for breach of contract.

22 Apr 08 20:44

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