Before we delve into the horrors of
the Agency Model let's look at a free month of Grace Notes from Philip Yancey (page a day devotionals, April 1st through 30th) available free in the Kindle Store --
Apple's
agency model let publishers set prices in return for a 30 percent cut to the maker of iPhone and iPad.
Not exact matches
In both situations, Apple had convinced major book publishers to go with an «
agency model,» which would
let them set their own prices on ebooks (as in raise prices on ebooks).
This
model relieves
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In fact, force Amazon to
let their vendors dictate the prices they should sell books for, a la «the
agency model.»
Apple, Penguin and Macmillan want to protect the so - called
agency model that
lets publishers — not vendors — set e-book prices, said the people on April 5, who declined to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.
Since those publishers were forced to abandon the «
agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty pe
agency pricing»
model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something called
Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty pe
Agency 2, which essentially
lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty percent.
One key sacrifice was
letting publishers move over to a so - called «
agency model,» which
let the publishers set e-book prices, rather than giving Amazon that power.
This is mainly attributed to the fact they can skirt the
Agency model that
lets publishers determine the price on books and will allow the company to undercut the competition.
Random House has also confirmed that it will be adhering to the
agency model of selling books, which means the company will be establishing the price of the books, rather then
letting Apple determine the price.
Let's forget about the fact that books sales continue to plummet and that the
agency pricing
model was supposedly put into place in order to save the hard cover sector of the industry.
For NON
agency publishers the removal of the DRM requirement would
let the retailer drop their price and still make the same margin after costs under the wholesale
model.
If one publisher insisted on the
agency model, selling Stephen King's books for $ 9.99, they would make more money per sale, but lose more over the long run because another publisher would offer their books under the usual terms,
letting the retailer set the price.
Many Kindle Store customers didn't like paying 30 % to 100 % more for ebooks under the
agency model, and Amazon's ability to
let a (few hundred) thousand flowers bloom in the Kindle Store gave those customers lots of other places to go.
NASA has just released two free e-books about the Hubble Space Telescope and its not - yet - launched successor, with interactive features that
let readers watch a galaxy collision or manipulate a telescope
model between pages,
agency officials say.
Apple entered the market with its iBooks store in 2010, and brought with it the
agency pricing
model which
let authors and publishers control their own prices and earn 70 % of their list price for each copy sold.
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.»
That might seem harmless because it doesn't
let Amazon sell ebooks at a loss under the new terms of the
agency model.
The right response here is: for the state to leave this alone and
let the companies involved work out whatever contractual terms they wish, whether
agency model, wholesale
model, or some hybrid; stop employing antitrust law against even nominally private companies; stop enacting and enforcing laws that give rise to monopoly prices and oligopolies and corporatism and crony capitalism in the first place, such as copyright law, antitrust law, pro-union legislation, minimum wage, taxation in general, inflation and the business cycle, and other business regulations.
Yes,
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agencies compete, but they will find that the «issuer pays»
model is more compelling than the «'' buyer pays»
model.
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