Sentences with phrase «under agency pricing»

Under Agency pricing, of course, this meant that Kindle, BN, Kobo and others would lose money on every sale.

As I've written many times here at the Smashwords blog, Kindle Unlimited represents Amazon's end run around agency pricing (under agency pricing, publishers and indie authors set their own retail prices, and retailers don't discount).

In your post last week about Google pulling the rug out from under independent booksellers, you blamed Google for not investing enough — and that was under the agency pricing regime.

In fact, B&N argues, e-book and hardcover prices have fallen under agency pricing.»

Under agency pricing, publishers can still put their e-books on sale, and are doing so more than they did, say, a year ago.

His argument that prices have fallen under agency pricing is accurate, but only on Smashwords.

So far, there is no reason to think that this can not occur under the agency pricing model as long as the distribution market for e-books remains competitive.

Under agency pricing publishers set the price for their titles and, guess what, it is the same price everywhere.

Certain digital content is distributed under an agency pricing model in which the publishers set fixed prices for eBooks and NOOK receives a fixed commission on content sold through the eBookstore.

So, if an e-book has a price of $ 12.99 and the publisher gets 30 % of that under agency pricing, that starts the share of the pie the author gets to look at at $ 3.90.

Of course, many of those condemning Rutherford and those like him also point to the Bowker report about the price of e-books not rising under the agency pricing model as evidence the Department of Justice is wrong in claiming prices will rise under the agency model.

E.g., if you're an SF / F reader and you're looking for Jim Butcher's latest, sorry, his stuff's under agency pricing, so you're going to pay agency pricing on it no matter who you buy it from.

The Apple iBookstore and Google eBooks flourished under agency pricing and they grew quickly.

Under the agency pricing deal, publishers were allowed to set their own prices for e-books and Apple took a cut from all sales through the iBooks store for iOS devices.

Hachette sells all its U.S. e-books under the agency pricing model, and according to Thomas, is «very satisfied» with the agency model, but Thomas adds, «We welcome the ability to experiment with pricing, and offer readers a variety of choices.»

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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The European Union's statistics agency said Friday consumer prices rose by just 0.7 % in the 12 months to January, down from an 0.8 % annual rate of inflation in December, and further below the ECB's target of just under 2.0 %.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

Katz said she would use the results of the study to order audits of agencies she felt were under - serving the people of New York for too high a price.

Utah local educational agencies (that is, district and charter schools or LEAs) today announced their policy for free and reduced - price meals and free milk for children unable to pay the full price of meals / milk served under the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, After School Snack, and / or Special Milk programs.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah local educational agencies (that is, district and charter schools or LEAs) today announced their policy for free and reduced - price meals and free milk for children unable to pay the full price of meals / milk served under the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, After School Snack, and / or Special Milk programs.

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These terms were initially laid out as part of the settlement but are set to expire this fall, giving Hachette the option to once again attempt to impose agency pricing instead of the wholesale model that most entities operate under with Amazon.

That statement was that Apple could not engage in book discounting under the agency model for at least two years, and then it could only negotiate terms of the so - called «agency model» (in which the publishers set the prices of their books, not the retailer) with one publisher at a time spread out over a period of six months each.

Under Macmillan's model, known as the «agency model,» e-books will be priced from $ 12.99 to $ 14.99 when first released, with prices changing over time.

Penguin reached an agreement with the European Union «to settle its antitrust investigation over agency pricing, in order to «clear the decks» ahead of the company's proposed merger with Random House,» the Bookseller reported, noting that under the deal, Penguin «would not «restrict, limit or impede» e-book retailers» discounts or their ability to «set, alter or reduce retail prices for e-books» for two years.»

Three, if you take the time to shop around to the smaller sites or if you keep an eye on which publishers aren't operating under the agency model, you can find better prices.

«As Apple prepared to introduce its first iPad, the late Steve Jobs, then its chief executive, suggested moving to an «agency model,» under which the publishers would set the price of the book and Apple would take a 30 % cut.

When the ebook agency pricing model came under fire by the US Justice Department and the European Union, companies began to settle out of court.

Instead, the agreements allow e-book retailers to discount prices up to the aggregate cost — generally a 30 % commission under the agency model — of the discount computed over the course of the contract, which is generally a year.»

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

Industry insiders and general interested parties proclaimed that under the new Agency model being adapted by major publishers in determining global eBook prices, violates anti-trust and anti-competitive laws.

The Agency model is also under fire right now, especially in Europe where the EU is launching a major investigating in Publisher Price Cartels where price fixing is illPrice Cartels where price fixing is illprice fixing is illegal.

So all titles you sell at BN through Smashwords that are under $ 2.99 will earn you 60 % over 40 %, free and clear, without worry that retailers will discount (as Smashwords now operates with the Agency pricing model, except that we are the «agents» and set our own price).

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Section VI.B permits a Settling Defendant to negotiate a commitment from an e-book retailer that a retailer's aggregate expenditure on discounts and promotions of the Settling Defendant's e-books will not exceed the retailer's aggregate commission under an agency agreement in which the publisher sets the e-book price and the retailer is compensated through a commission.

And those of us who aren't thinking about the price, but whether under an agency model we'll be able to afford books at all... we're scratching our heads wondering why?

I agree the 10 % would remain the same but it's 10 % of the publisher's revenue, not the retailer's sale price, and under the new agency model the publisher's revenue (as Macmillan has explicitly stated) would be less, hence the author's revenue would also be less.

T. «Wholesale Price» means (1) the net amount, after any discounts or other adjustments (not including promotional allowances subject to Section 2 (d) of the Robinson - Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. 13 (d)-RRB-, that an E-book Retailer pays to an E-book Publisher for an E-book that the E-book Retailer Sells to consumers; or (2) the Retail Price at which an E-book Publisher, under an Agency Agreement, Sells an E-book to consumers through an E-book Retailer minus the commission or other payment that E-book Publisher pays to the E-book Retailer in connection with or that is reasonably allocated to that Sale.

Under the terms of the Hachette's settlement of the Department of Justice lawsuit, the existing contracts which allowed for the agency pricing model had to be scrapped and rewritten, a job which simply takes a lot of time and effort from parties for both the publisher and the retailers.

The book should garner a tremendous source of revenue for publisher Simon & Schuster, who is pricing the book under the agency rules.

This is because ebooks are sold under the agency model where the publisher sets the price and gets 70 % of each sale, and the retailer gets the remaining 30 %.

Under the so - called agency pricing model, publishers keep roughly 70 % of the revenue from each individual sale, with Amazon receiving an estimated 30 % as their fee.

Under the agency model, a publisher sets a retail price for a specific book, which establishes a level playing field for all resellers.

Under the terms of the settlement, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette will no longer be using agency pricing.

Currently the Agency model in the UK and Europe is under fire due to many groups claiming they are little more then a price fixing cartel, which is illegal in the UK.

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other prodUnder the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other produnder the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

This settlement will allow retailers to set the price of ebooks again, meaning the publishers will have to negotiate all new contracts with their retailers and agree to abandon the «agency model» that was established under the supposed anti-trust violations.

Ebooks on Apple's iBookstore rose to the range of $ 12.99 to $ 14.99 under Apple's agency pricing model, which allows book publishers to set the price of an ebook while Apple takes a 30 percent cut.

The publishers noted that while they continue to sell e-books under the wholesale model, they have «benefitted significantly» — along with authors, booksellers and consumers, — from the ability of the Big Six publishers to adopt the agency pricing model with Amazon, since those arrangements, «contributed dramatically to increased competition and diversification in the distribution of e-books.»