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Hya Harry: The five-copy rule has always been the case and still is. Nope, Amazon put out an ultimatum to all publishers using PoD ... use Booksurge from here in and re-set all current titles with Booksurge or we won't sell your books. It was as simple and as blunt as that and caused a heck of a lot of worry to smaller operators ... not to mention the big author mills and self-publishing outfits who lost a fortune (good!). There was a huge row, of course. The result was that Amazon eventually back-pedalled, without actually retracting their demand in writing. The result is that some small independents that use LSI and others are still selling their paperbacks through Amazon. Of course, they did drop our ebooks when they brought out the Kindle because they will only sell ebook by Kindle-registered publishers ... and you can't register unless you have a US office. Tough luck the rest of the world, eh? Hoots. Neil
If you're really interested, Harry, drop me a line and I'll try to dig out the original letters that were sent out and forward them to you tomorrow. N
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