A federal class action lawsuit has been filed by three writers against Penguin Group and its self-publishing division Author Solutions, seeking "$5 million in punitive damages for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, California unfair competition law and New York general business law," Courthouse News Service reported.The complaint states that "even while Defendant Author Solutions prominently markets itself on its website as '[t]he leading indie publishing company in the world,' authors often discover, once it is too late, that Author Solutions is not an 'indie publisher' at all. It is a printing service that fails to maintain even the most rudimentary standards of book publishing, profiting not for its authors but from them."
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