Sentences with phrase «apple about ebook pricing»

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The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple, as it prepared to launch its own ebook store, persuaded publishers to price ebooks at $ 13 and $ 15, or about $ 3 more than the same books being sold through Amazon and other outlets.

Apple, Inc. (Apple) funded this credit to settle antitrust lawsuits brought by State Attorneys General and Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books (eBooks).

I also don't know if you've been following my point about a single source controlling pricing now (Amazon) vs six publishers and two major retailers interacting (the big six plus Apple and Amazon), but I can't help believing that leaving the entire process of ebook pricing and market setting in the hands of single source is less desirable than allowing all the market players to interact.

While the US courts hear arguments about alleged price fixing and anti-trust issues between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers» effort to reduce Amazon's hold on the ebook industry, a similar investigation has been going on in the EU over the same accusations.

When Apple allegedly approached the publishers about switching to an agency model in order to prevent Amazon from selling ebooks at what was often below cost in order to encourage the sale of Kindle readers, Amazon lost the option to sell ebooks at its previously advertised $ 9.99 price point.

In the process, I learned a lot about self - publishing ebooks, from formats to ISBNs to imprints to copyrights to pricing to working with Apple.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged local retailers to voice their concerns about eBook price - fixing as it considers a lawsuit against Apple and five of the world's largest book publishers, The >>

Point One: The complaint reads: «The fact that Apple brokered the simultaneous switch to the Agency model, and the Publisher Defendants agreed to standardize higher eBook prices, is amply demonstrated by a January 2010 interview in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs told Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal that Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing for eBooks was about to end:

Amazon's ebook marketshare was about 90 % when the Obama administration DOJ intervened to go after, would you believe, Apple, which at the time of its alleged price - fixing had 0 % of the ebook market and was selling ebooks that could only be read on pricey devices.

For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a book.»

There was nothing illegal per se about the contracts the publishers had with Amazon or that the publishers were able to set the retail price under those contracts (Apple was doing business under an agency model for years before they got into ebooks and continues to for its app and music sales).

And most ebook purchases come from Apple or Amazon — and the way people buy those books (finding the book, looking at the cover, reading the reviews, reading the description, downloading to their device) is just about the same — and the book's pricing should be the same across platforms.

A new set of proposed remedies suggested by the DoJ in the Apple ebook price - fixing case has tempered some of the issues the Cupertino firm complained about, but the agency maintains Apple should face tough penalties for continuing to deny any wrongdoing.

«Apple, Inc. (Apple) funded this credit to settle antitrust lawsuits brought by State Attorneys General and Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books (eBooks),» Amazon's email to Kindle customers reads.

Yep, that's the return of agency ebook pricing about two and a half years after the Department of Justice first sued Apple and publishers for conspiring to set ebook prices.

It's been several months now since any news has been heard about Apple «s settlement in a class - action lawsuit over the company's ebook price - fixing.

What I don't understand is why Apple would care at all about what ebook prices are.