Maker Kindle-accessories accuses Amazon of blackmail

M-Edge Accessories, maker of accessories for the Kindle, complains, Kindle manufacturer Amazon. Amazon would threaten the products of M-Edge ‘to be found’ on his site as the company no higher commission would give.

M-Edge sells its products through Amazon.com and closed in november 2009, a deal which stated that the fifteen percent of the revenue would stand as a commission, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to M-Edge demanded Amazon two months later, however, a commission of 32 percent. Amazon would threaten the products of M-Edge is harder to find on the website if it would not agree to the new terms and conditions.

After M-Edge refused, would Amazon in may of 2010, again, have urged again with the warning that refusal would lead one to the products of M-Edge could still be found in the online-department store. M-Edge says that this tack was because the sell through Amazon for the bulk of the revenues of the company.

M-Edge accuses Amazon also patentschending. Amazon sells a Kindle cover with built in reading light, and M-Edge says a patent on such a design. In addition, claims the company in the accusation that Amazon is deliberately the message ‘currently not available’ for products of the company showed, while this was not the case. Amazon will not respond to the lawsuit.