Further to ProPrint‘s report ‘Amazon’s new POD policy raises eyebrows’ (May, 2008, p. 10), Blogger Morris Rosenthal reports (May 19) on a class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon by POD publisher BookLocker.com:

“Today a class action lawsuit was filed in response to Amazon’s threat to remove the ‘Buy’ buttons of publishers who refuse to sign up with their on-demand printing subsidiary, Booksurge. If certified, the class action will most likely include all publishers who use on demand printing to print their books for distribution. If it functions like the class action lawsuits involving credit card or telephone billing that we all find ourselves party to on a regular basis, publishers will automatically be included unless they opt out. The primary plaintiff in the suit is BookLocker.com, Inc., the company that first broke the silence about the heavy-handed tactics Booksurge was using against Lightning Source’s larger publisher customers.”

Read the legal complaint in full (PDF file).

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