Normally, I don't post to this blog except on Thursdays and Sundays, but this news was way too big to wait another day. What's happened is that Amazon has called it quits in the antitrust lawsuit BookLocker filed against it. Yes, Amazon has thrown in the towel and settled its differences with BookLocker.com, who claimed that Amazon tried to force them and other POD (that's print-on-demand, folks) publishers to pay BookSurge (the name at the time, since changed to CreateSpace) to print their books or lose their "buy it now" buttons on Amazon.
Here's the post that discusses the class action lawsuit that resulted and its settlement. (BookLocker absolutely refused to make it a confidential settlement. Whoa, Nelly! Amazon must have really wanted to fraking settle this.)
Anyhow, looks like David just beat Goliath again.
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