Lightning Source response to Amazon
Lightning Source went out to its customers today with an open letter saying "be calm" as a means to re-assure publishers who feel threatened by Amazon's insistence that pod books are printed by BookSurge. Here's the contents of the e-mail I got today:- Lightning Source announcement regarding Amazon/Booksurge Dear Customer, Lightning Source has been following the recent press coverage and discussions about Amazon.com and BookSurge. We are aware of the concern this is causing the publishing community. The issue centers around Amazon.com tying the availability of your books and terms of sale at Amazon.com to the production of books at the Amazon.com subsidiary BookSurge, specifically requiring you to use BookSurge in order to sell on Amazon. Like you, we are very concerned about any conduct that would serve to limit a publishers choice in supply chain partners and to negatively impact the cost of your products to consumers. We believe that choice and selection of best...