Publishing Problem

[talon]

OK, I've never had this problem before and I have no idea what to do about it.

My family cookbook, Stewed Monkey Heads, was published by a POD (Lulu.com) because it is a special interest book that probably won't appeal to anyone outside my family and a few friends and co-workers. I bought the ISBN and set it up to be distributed through Amazon (which officially won't be completed until January 3rd) so co-workers, former co-workers, friends, and distant relatives could buy copies easily (Lulu doesn't ship everywhere I have family).

Because Amazon takes an amazingly huge cut ($7.00 of the purchase price will be for Amazon!), I feel the price is already excessive ($18 something for only 300 or so recipes - on the other hand, that works out to 6¢ a recipe).

And here's
this person offering it through Amazon before its official release date at an exhorbitant price - $33.00!!!!!!! plus the usual $3.99 shipping.

Do I have any recourse on this? To whom would I complain? What can I do? Is there anything I can do? I don't want any of my co-workers, friends, or family thinking this is the correct price or to be scammed into buying from this person because it's currently the only copy available on Amazon.

This makes me very angry. I put the absolute lowest royalty rate on it that Lulu would let me since I was setting it up for Amazon distribution - they have these rules, yanno. I'd have set it up with zero royalties if I'd have had a choice cause it's like - for family. And friends. And co-workers.

I think they are getting scammed by some greedy jerk doing business as office_bookshelf who's charging almost DOUBLE what the book is worth and I want to put a stop to it.