Sentences with phrase «agency pricing ultimately»

Do you believe, on balance, that has agency pricing ultimately done long - term damage to the book business?

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Price, who has presented his own replacement plan, is now turning to a job of managing a massive agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and other programs, and will be tasked with implementing what Congress ultimately sends him, Childs said.

Although the FDA can't dictate prices or reject therapies over pricing concerns (they can only focus on safety and efficacy), the agency can encourage more competition through moves like this (as well as speedier approval pathways) which could spur drug makers to produce products that ultimately lower costs for patients — a goal cited by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in announcing the list.

The consumer ratings agency notes that pricing varies depending on where the individual lives, as geography dictates available sunshine and utility rates which ultimately determines if the innovative solar roof tiles makes sense as a purchase.

Those same five Big Six publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Macmillan — ultimately came to agreements with Amazon in the US over the wholesale - versus - agency pricing model.

(For those who follow industry news, it was the launch of Apple iBooks — and its agency pricing model — that ultimately led to the Department of Justice lawsuit that accused Apple and the Big Five publishers of ebook price fixing.)

Ultimately, in late 2009, Apple and the Publisher Defendants settled on the strategy that worked — replacing the wholesale model with an agency model that gave the Publisher Defendants the power to raise retail e-book prices themselves.

We'd have to adapt because ultimately, the agency pricing results in readers paying high prices across the board when in a wholesale / retail market, competition would keep prices lower.

She says publishers and Apple will likely have to produce sensitive business records to prove that the agency pricing model is ultimately necessary to protect consumers.

Ultimately an agency like this will shop around and compare prices for you in a matter of minutes.