Sentences with phrase «agency model less»

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He said that if he had to rely on the European Space Agency's limited, difficult - to - access data for his work checking climate model predictions against reality, he'd be «more or less blind» — particularly in the vast, uninhabited stretches of the globe like the Pacific, which are vital for understanding the world climate.

Many pharmaceutical and biotech companies work with freelancers — independent business owners who contract directly with companies — but the staffing agency model is much more common, especially among less experienced workers.

Beginning January 1, 2006, street motorcycles and motor - driven cycles year model 2006 and newer, with engines less than 50 cc displacement, require an emission label certifying them to meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emission regulations, and may be registered regardless of mileage.

Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new ebook releases at the wholesale price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.

So, they set up the agency model, which made them less money in the short run, in exchange for greater long - term control.

John Sargent Speaks Out In a statement, Macmillan CEO John Sargent said that the company adopted the agency model for e-books «knowing we would make less money on our e book business.

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.

Add into the mix the fact that publishers have admitted they make less money per title under the agency model than they did before and you have the answer to who is harmed.

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.

In that sense, the agency model seems less like some elaborate conspiracy to control the market and more like a desperate move by a fading industry.

The agency model would allow Amazon to make more money selling our books, not less.

Publishers actually make less money with the agency model, so why have they insisted on it?

In a statement explaining their position, Hatchette said it adopted the agency model that was «designed to facilitate entry by a new retail competitor [Apple] and to increase the diversity and health of retail booksellers, and we took these actions knowing that Hachette itself would make less money than before the adoption of agency.»

While Apple's agency model would pay publishers less per book than HarperCollins received from Amazon, Jobs told Murdoch that the anticipated iPad sales would make the model more than worth it.

Even if Apple and Amazon were on the same agency arrangement with a Publisher, and that Publisher were able to move the retail price of the e-book to the top of the Apple price tier and sell it for $ 12.99, the Publisher would still receive less revenue under the agency model: $ 9.10 instead of the $ 13.00 in revenue under the wholesale model.

Independent Publishers and Authors are having a field day — Amazon and Apple are battling to sign up more and more Publishers and 5 of the Big 6 Publishers are making themselves less competitive by adopting the Agency Model.

We also get people concerned that a Kindle will be a bad long - term investment due to the stranglehold of the Agency Model on pricing, which results in less substantial savings than seem reasonable.

The authors blame the rating agencies rather than the regulators that demanded that ratings be used, even if the agencies were less than certain about their models.

FICO newest scoring model FICO 9.0 has changed its credit - scoring model by putting less focus on medical debts and will give consumers a break on their score IF they've settled with a collections agency.

In 2014, he unveiled this new model of embodied writing - as - art practice at the Whitney Biennial with his audio installation 16 Sculptures, in which he re-created iconic and lesser known sculptural works from throughout the history of art in the medium of language, infesting these works with an authorial agency hitherto unexplored and allowing the viewer to collaborate in a re-creative perceptual exercise of meaning - formation.

Then there's Bruce Tolar, whose Mississippi cottage communities are modeled after the Katrina Cottages, which sprung up to be less institutionalized housing that's better apt to foster community - building than Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers.