Sentences with phrase «agency pricing went»

I haven't found secure ePub from there since agency pricing went into effect.

It calls its market share and revenues here as «negligible» and says this will happen in Canada if agency pricing goes away.

Yes, if agency pricing goes then the whole system will have to adjust.

I'm glad to see the discounts — thanks to agency pricing going away, at least for the next 2 years or so.

With agency pricing gone, Amazon would be running those pricing promotions itself, and competitors like Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Google will have to decide whether they want to spend resources matching those prices instead of building up their platforms in other ways.

'' If agency pricing goes away, the company will be able to discount e-books the way it discounts print books...» Not quite.

If agency pricing goes away, the company will be able to discount e-books the way it discounts print books and can likely return to its pre-agency pricing tactic of pricing New York Times bestsellers at $ 9.99.

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).

The price discipline relied on by the global duopoly of BPC and Canpotex (Saskatchewan's potash international shipping agency) has — at least for the time being — ended, but according to analysts it's the big players who are really going to be able to weather the industry's current troubles.

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

The HHS secretary went on to say that his agency wanted to find ways for Medicaid and Medicare to bring drug prices down by creating more resources to negotiate with pharma companies.

I know it doesn't feel quite like buying groceries, but the moment you decide to get proactive and join an Internet Dating Site, dating agency or club and money is going to change hands... which now makes you a consumer; the fact that you're seeking to buy something that you can't put a price doesn't mean other people haven't.

Amazon (and others) eventually went along with the agency pricing model at the insistence of publishers.

The pitfalls of discussing new contracts all at once would be tantamount to collusion and would go against the DOJ settlement on agency pricing.

If Amazon had wanted to go head - to - head with Apple a few years ago — a giant who enjoyed monopoly control over both the online music business and the market for related hardware like the iPod — it might have offered record labels the opportunity to cut a deal that would have guaranteed them higher prices, just as Apple has done with publishers and the agency - pricing model.

E.g., if you're an SF / F reader and you're looking for Jim Butcher's latest, sorry, his stuff's under agency pricing, so you're going to pay agency pricing on it no matter who you buy it from.

If a retailer is saying you can't do agency pricing any longer and you're going to go from a 70 % cut of the price to a 50 % cut of the price; that's a big deal to them... but we don't know if that's the case.

Of all the directions this could go, Heck sets up an agency for which he'll travel to hell to seek answers from or get messages to the dead... for a price.

My opinion is that they went along with this because they wanted into iBooks / iTunes and the only way to do so was to accept Steve Jobs» terms and that meant forcing Amazon, B&N and other e-book retailers to adopt the agency pricing model.

And remember, even though they aren't saying it now, the initial reason for publishers going to agency pricing was to prevent the «cannibalization» of hard copy sales.

So we told the publishers, «We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 %, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway.»

We told the publishers, «We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 %, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway...» They went to Amazon and said, «You're going to sign an agency contract or we're not going to give you the books.»

When the Agency Pricing model went into effect, many of the authors whose books I read disappeared from my ebook store of choice (ironicaly, the publishers» collective desire to take on Amazon's power in the ebook market drove me to the kindle store.)

But the shortsightedness of publishers falling fast for the Agency plan is that they actually think that if they keep e-books away from the customers by either delays or pricing, that customers will go to hardcovers or pay the 50 % higher price for a digital version.

He went on to show that the reason for the lower prices is the agency model was basically driven by the consumers.

Well Google is going with the Agency Model and allowing publishers to establish their own prices.

Major publishers are going to begin dispensing refunds to people who purchased eBooks from Apples iBookstore at agency level prices.

Some of the events of 2011 were of the «you coulda seen it coming» variety — Borders closing or Random House going to the agency pricing model.

So why didn't Kobo start adapting when it became clear here and in England that the agency pricing model, as it existd, was going to be struck down?

It seems brutally clear that every publisher is going to shift to the agency model: They set their own price for books, and whoever's selling it takes a cut.

Unsurprisingly, when prices went up on agency - priced books, sales immediately shifted away from agency publishers and towards the rest of our store.

But I think we might be a couple years away from breaching 50 % — which might require a technological advance like color e-Ink or foldable screens, or a game - changing event in the publishing world, such as superstar authors going independent and straight to e-books, big publishers embracing e-books, or lowering of e-book pricing (perhaps as a result of the agency model going away).

In the most fraught section of Grandinetti's testimony, Heiss referred to a section of Grandinetti's deposition in which Grandinetti said that, following the introduction of agency pricing, ebook prices went up «across the board.»

Heiss then went on to cite «Amazon data» that showed that statistics showing that four publishers actually lowered prices on many NYT bestsellers after the introduction of agency pricing.

For now, they are going along with a temporary agency model for pricing, and this is what is causing the problem.

Indie publishers who go through Smashwords have dropped their prices, but, under agency, big publishing houses upped their prices from $ 3 - 5 / book overnight.

The next issue I had with the author's assertion that Amazon is The Big Evil goes to her condemnation for Amazon refusing to sell books from the Big Five (it wasn't six at that point) back at the beginning of the agency pricing model.

We'll start back before April Fools Day, 2010 — the day that the agency model took effect — and continue right through to today and beyond by looking at some of the available tea leaves to see where prices, and the book business in general, are likely to go in the future.

E-book prices on average were lower than $ 9.99 when Amazon brought their suit, and they grew lower after the agency model went into play and other vendors could get a toehold in the market.

Now with agency pricing back in full swing, and publishers putting whatever price they want on their eBooks (per the Hachette / Amazon dispute), I think you're going to see a surge of pricing changes in 2015.

He explained that, under the agreements, Apple would «go to [an] agency model, where [publishers] set the price, and we get our 30 %, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what [publishers] want anyway.»

Now, I could go on and on about agency pricing, price fixing, terms like «paperback ebook pricing» and «hardcover ebook pricing» and so on....

On April 1, 2010, the day that the agency model went into effect for its proponents, there were 480,236 ebooks in the Kindle Store, and 23 % of them were priced at $ 10 and up.

They are not looking at the way indie and small press digital sales continue to climb while that trend for traditional publishers has slowed, especially after going back to an agency - like pricing.

Grr, between this whole agency pricing fiasco and DRM makes me want to go back to strictly print books.

Random House (the lone big publisher not going with the agency model) and smaller publishers and indie authors can price books at $ 9.99 or lower.

Isaacson quotes Jobs as saying: «So we told the publishers, «We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent and yes, the customer pays a little more but that's what you want anyway.»

Agency pricing does not go away.

For those who are unaware, the retailer and the publisher have been locked in a dispute over contract terms; Amazon wants to remain under the wholesale model in which it gets to determine the price of the ebooks it sells, even if that means taking a loss in order to pass the savings on to the customer, and Hachette wants to go to the briefly - instituted agency model in which the publisher determines the price.

Under the agency model, the publisher is the only party that can discount e-books, and an e-book's price must be the same across all retailers (i.e., an e-book can't go on sale at just one retailer).