Sentences with phrase «against the publisher for»

This isn't the first time Amazon has taken this kind of boycott - action against a publisher for not agreeing to its terms, but it's also not the first time any book retailer — online or otherwise — has refused to stock, discount, sell, or promote a specific publisher's works.

The right - wing wan na be bad boy refused to refund it, and went on to file a lawsuit against the publisher for $ 10 million.

Under the department's proposed remedy, Apple will be prohibited from again serving as a conduit of information among the conspiring publishers or from retaliating against publishers for refusing to sell e-books on agency terms.

Not exact matches

«It had everything going against it,» said Karl Brauer, executive publisher for Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader.

If small companies get together to fight the large ones, as for example in the case of the publishers against Amazon, the antitrust enforcement goes against them, Bush told me.

The Times» foray into meal delivery is another example of how the publisher is looking for new ways to make money from its content, brand and journalists to hedge against the uncertain future of newspapers.

The best native DSP is joining the best discovery, to carry online advertising into a new era without interruptive ads, and a business model that works for the publishers rather than against them...

A federal magistrate judge has concluded that a neo-Nazi website publisher could be held liable for the conduct of readers who carried out an anti-Semitic «troll storm» against a Montana real estate agent's family.

One fundamental principle that has shaped how the marketing industry has evolved, including local search content and advertising, is the protection for publishers against liability for third - party content.

For example, some bills have asked publishers to verify physical addresses or check license numbers against state agency records.

Against Goldhagen, Littell wants to defend «senior scholars» who have spent decades pressing the case for serious research of the Holocaust «long before any young writer or eager publisher could capitalize on the brute fact that today «there's no business like Shoah business.

Plagiarism accusations levied (and later apologized for) by radio host Janet Mefferd against Driscoll first focused on material found in A Call to Resurgence (Tyndale House Publishers), but later expanded to include overlapping paragraphs between Driscoll's...

They set up a crowd - funded event, Unite Against Dividers, for artists, activists, curators, politicians, entrepreneurs, publishers and union and migrant representatives to meet up and organise in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Ms Morgan voted against the measure last year, and Benjamin Cohen, publisher of gay current affairs site PinkNews, said of her appointment: «It is unfortunate that the new Minister for Women opposes the rights of some women, lesbians, to have the right to marry.

Immediate past Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board, (GFZB), Kwadwo Twum Boafo has threatened a legal action against Western Publications, publishers of the Daily Guide newspaper and for libelous publications relating to him.

Instead, most publishers backed an alternative system which would make it harder for groups to bring complaints against the industry.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

A coalition of federal lawmakers has spoken out against the new duties, including U.S. Reps. Brian Higgins and Elise Stefanik, who issued a joint statement on Thursday citing concerns over costs for consumers and potential job cuts for employees of newspaper and book publishers.

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has filed a suit at the Fast Track High Court against the publishers of The Herald newspaper and three others for accusing him of engaging in illegal mining.

Major commercial publishers, particularly Elsevier, have fought against government mandates for OA publication of publicly funded research.

When Sloane Stephens dating a stud against Madison Keys for her first - ever Grand Slam title Saturday, it's expected a certain someone will be watching Publisher / Date: Amazon Digital Services, June 2013 Genre (s): Romance, Stud 4 Stud E-Book Short.

Loot boxes have fallen under intense political and legal scrutiny following the high - profile backlash against Star Wars Battlefront II «s planned loot box system, for which publisher EA recently apologized.

Publisher Deep Silver shared a new trailer today for its upcoming free - to - play zombie - laden MOBA Dead Island Epidemic, showing just what kind of mayhem players will be up against when the full game launches.

Publisher Deep Silver shared a new trailer today for its upcoming free - to - play zombie - laden MOBA Dead Island Epidemic, showing just what kind of mayhem players will be up against when the full game...

Based on a Henry James novella and filmed against a lush jungle backdrop in Venezuela, a young American publisher sets out from New York City, to search for the lost manuscripts of a famous deceased poet.

In Against the Odds: How «At - Risk» Students Exceed Expectations (Jossey - Bass Publishers; Publication Date: December 1998), Janine Bempechat, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, examines the lives of children who seem to defy the odds, giving parents, educators, and anyone interested in the well - being of children hope and inspiration as they strive for academic excellence in all our children.

But it turns out that I am woefully out of date: according to The Language Police, the sensitivity guidelines for one major publisher warn against paying too much attention to figures like Harriet Tubman (along with Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington Carver), because they are «acceptable to the European - American establishment.»

GW thanks Jennifer Reynolds, publisher of Arizonans Against Common Core for the following list of bills that Bob Worsley helped defeat:

My concerns notwithstanding, I respect Amazon's passion for innovation (and I truly, truly approved of the Department of Justice's antitrust suit against the biggest publishers, whether or not Amazon benefited; the law is the law).

Written for aspiring authors, previously published authors, and independent publishers, it explains the ever - shifting publishing landscape and helps indie authors understand that they're up against the status quo, and how to work within the system but also how to subvert the system in order to succeed.

As authors and business owners, self - publishers need to toe that line between acquiring new readers while also maintaining a high perceived value for their books — so Midnight Publishing cautions against pricing a book that low unless it's for a limited time and coincides with another type of discount or special, like Amazon's Kindle Countdown Deals.

In its 2012 suit against Apple, the U.S. Department of Justice maintained that, by striking a coordinated deal to establish agency pricing for e-books, the publishers and Apple exhibited anticompetitive conduct by conspiring to fix prices.

Between rulings against the company for its involvement with colluding with most of the Big Five publishers, to having an outsider officer appointed to oversee... [Read more...]

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

The Amsterdam District Court ruled in July that Tom Kabinet can stay open for business during a legal battle against the Dutch Publishers Association.

A recent lawsuit was filed against them stating that they misrepresents themselves, luring authors in with claims that its books can compete with «traditional publishers,» offering «greater speed, higher royalties, and more control for its authors.»

And as a matter of FYI, I ran this article past someone who was a reporter for both newspaper and TV, to see if it was accidentally biased for or against self - publishers or trad publishers, which it was never meant to be and as I suspected, this person said that it wasn't and that anyone who read it objectively without any prior personal agenda would see this.

Sure, you want readers, sure you want your art to be seen, sure you are tired of beating your head against the problems of traditional publishers, but this is a business and businesses don't exist for the most part unless they make money.

I don't hold anything against publishers and publicists for this range of opinion.

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

The five publishers already made a consumer settlement for a total of $ 164 million, leaving Apple to go up against the DOJ alone.

Further, they also offer a 60 % discount for indie authors against the traditional five publishers in the cost of running the ads.

The intention of the clause is to protect the publisher against paying the author for books that are sitting on store shelves but may eventually be returned to the publisher.

However, from what I understand the DoJ case against the 5 publishers and Apple will only affect the agency model for those 5 publishers.

The term «agency pricing» may not be familiar to those outside the book industry, but it has become a serious issue with the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple and five major book publishers for colluding on prices as a defensive move against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).

It's not fair to criticise publishers too much on their lack of innovation and change (it is fair to criticise them harshly in this fight for higher ebook prices because that is simply going against business common sense, on top of the democratisation of reading).

It is why you are not hearing a huge backlash against self - publishing writers, and in fact why many editors and publishers in New York actively say this new world is a good thing for everyone.

The fight against Google Advertising has been taken to European courtrooms for several years, with publishers in Belgium, Italy, and France bringing copyright cases against it for displaying and aggregating snippets of content in search results and on services such as its Google News aggregator.

Huub wrapped it up by saying «Watermarking's greatest shortcoming (from a publisher's perspective; a boon for the reader) is that it does nothing to protect against small - time file - sharing among friends.