Oy. The cauldron continues to bubble and all sorts of stuff pop up out of the stew.
First, surprise, Amazon.com has come out with a public letter about the topic, too.
PaidContent.org has a short article (Amazon Does Damage Control…) with wonderful comments! The comments explain a lot and I understand the situation better.
Lightning Source has a press release/public statement about the topic.
Ingram Book Group, a big distributor that owns Lightning Source, has commented in a Publisher’s Weekly article.
Be sure to catch up on the latest over at Writer’s Weekly. The article reminds everyone that the problem isn’t Amazon.com vs Ingram/Lightning Source. It is Amazon.com vs RCE and any other publisher that uses Lightning Source (LS). There’s a big difference. LS and Ingram could afford to take on Amazon.com in the courts. But can small publishers?
So far, the publishers that have been directly effected have been the bigger vanity (publish-on-demand) publishers rather than the print-on-demand publishers.