Also, the the new agency pricing model means that consumers often only see a small savings between the e price and the print price. (jwikert.typepad.com)
$ 9.99 is often treated as a magic price — the cost of a New York Times bestseller on Kindle back in the good old days, before big - six publishers adopted agency pricing models and ended Amazon's discounting of their books. (gigaom.com)
The most recent attempt started in 2010 when five major U.S. publishers — MacMillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Penguin — entered into a so - called agency pricing model with Apple, then allegedly used the Apple deal as leverage to force other retailers into adopting the same pricing model. (pcworld.com)