Indie Booksellers Are Suing Amazon & Big 6 Over eBooks
Three independent bookstores are suing Amazon along with Random House, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, alleging that confidential agreements between the bookseller and the publishers is keeping them from participating fairly in the eBook marketplace.
The Huffington Post has the story: “The bookstores making the complaint are the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, based in Albany, N.Y., Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., and Posman Books of New York City, though the suit states that these stores are suing on behalf of ‘all independent brick-and-mortar bookstores who sell e-books.'”
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