Brooklyn bookstores join fight against the power of Amazon, Barnes and Noble
If you purchased “50 Shades of Gray” on Amazon for your Kindle e-reader, you’re blocked from transferring that purchase onto your Barnes and Noble Nook.
Independent bookstores are protesting against this practice. Three independent bookstores have filed a lawsuit against the mega-online retailer Amazon and the major six publishing houses alleging anti-trust violations.
Posman Books and Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza of New York City and Albany New York, respectively, along with Fiction Addiction of South Carolina, allege in their lawsuit that they represent “all independent brick-and-mortar bookstores who sell e-books.”