Sentences with phrase «agency for ebook sales»
Following the April 1 Business Insider report that implied Amazon was losing patience with HarperCollins in negotiating a new sales agreement, Publishers Lunch has learned that Harper is preparing to return to full agency for ebook sales next week.
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Hachette argued that the landscape for e-book sales had changed positively since the adoption of the agency model in 2010, writing, «Two years ago, Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of eBooks and eReaders, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors.
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.
The tech magnate obviously doesn't think so, and has fired back in court briefs about the abusive requests the DOJ is making, requests which include steps that prevent Apple from working in the agency model — one of the major sources of these allegations in the first place — for five years rather than the proposed two, as well as insisting that Apple allow retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble to sell ebooks through their iOS - capable apps and receive a commission on those sales like an affiliate would.
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 products.
Part of the problem in sales for the BPHs is that they think agency pricing for eBooks is a really good idea.
When an agency model publisher fixes a low price for a backlist title like these, the publishing is putting itself in a position to learn a great deal about pricing, sales, and profitability in the ebook world.
I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for ebooks under the agency model which will become effective in early March.
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There is some protection for ebook prices under agency agreements, however: «The aggregate value of the price discounts or promotions offered by any retailer should not exceed the aggregate amount equal to the total commissions the publisher pays to that retailer over a 12 - month period in connection with the sale of its ebooks to consumers.»
BN.com comparable sales reflect the actual selling price for eBooks sold under the agency model rather than solely the commission received.
The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their ebooks higher than the price Amazon charges for the print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored, low - priced ebooks; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.
Publishers are more interested in managing a sales mix of print and ebooks than Amazon, and that could lead to a natural slowdown in growth of ebook sales for those publishers in agency pricing.»
The complaint says that the publishers named as defendants «almost simultaneously announced that they were switching from a wholesale pricing model to an Agency model for eBook sales» in January 2010 and «the announcements to shift to the Agency model coincided with the release by Apple of the iPad tablet computer.
If so, the picture presented in this report might be even more dire for the publishers who are back using agency pricing if their results were not being buoyed up somewhat by Random / Penguin's ebook sales.
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).
His explanation for the rise in US trade print sales in 2015 and 2016 is that in 2015 the large trade publishers» agency contracts eliminated retailer discounting of ebooks prompting Amazon, in mid-2015, to increase its discounts on their print books, instead.
However, there's some consolation for the Big Five in their bank balances for ebooks as they raised prices massively during the year in a return to agency pricing so although sales fell, receipts rose.