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Book Club Nailed on Do-Not-Call Charges

February 23, 2006
In the most recent case brought against a company for failing to stop calling consumers who asked to be put on the company's own do-not-call list, Bookspan will pay $680,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges.

The Commission also alleged that Bookspan called more than 100,000 consumers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry.

The FTC alleged that Bookspan, a partnership of Book of the Month Club Holdings, LLC and Doubleday Direct, Inc., called tens of thousands of consumers who previously asked to be put on its own do-not-call list, and also unlawfully called consumers on the DNC Registry.

The court order settling the case bars the company from violating the FTC Act and Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) in the future. The DNC Rule is part of the Commission's TSR provisions.

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