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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 statehttp://www.authorhouse.com/getpublished/position.asp" target="_blank">ment 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".