Angela Hoy

Good News for POD World: Amazon Settles Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by BookLocker

Posted by on January 20, 2010 at 4:46 pm

If you look back at some of my posts from April 2008, you’ll see that at that time Amazon was threatening to monopolize the print-on-demand (POD) publishing industry.  Amazon wanted all POD publishers to print their books using BookSurge, a POD owned by Amazon. In other words, they wanted all POD publishers to pay Amazon [...]

News for POD Publishers and Those Wanting to Self-Publish: Amazon/BookSurge Issues Still in Court

Posted by on August 27, 2009 at 10:06 am

Has anyone been wondering what ever happened with the Amazon/Booksurge issue? Remember, Amazon wanted all Print-on-Demand (POD) publishers to use its subsidiary, BookSurge, to print their books or else…or else it would turn off the “buy” buttons for those books on Amazon.com? And remember, BookLocker filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon? Well, the saga continues…and [...]

To Blog for Free or Not to Blog for Free, That's the Question

Posted by on September 23, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Okay…don’t take my word for it. I asked two “experts” if guest bloggers normally get paid for their work. First, I asked Linda Lee, the owner of Smart Writers, Stupid Computers,a writer, speaker, educator, and expert in website design and on-line promotion and marketing. She also is the expert presenter on websites and online marketing [...]