Sentences with phrase «agency publishers»

Those publishers raised their prices significantly and this gave an enormous boost to non agency publishers and self publishers whose sales exploded.

Lawyers advised (at least some) publishers that agency required a contractual relationship between the publisher and each point of distribution, resulting in deal - making complexity that leaves some retailers without a full shelf of agency publisher books more than six months after the shift.

The decision we took in January 2010 to move Penguin's e-book business to agency pricing has been vindicated by the very rapid subsequent growth in the volume of e-books sold by agency publishers, and by the benefit to consumers of the steep decline in the price of e-book readers that that has resulted from this open competition.»

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

At the beginning of April, Hachette and HarperCollins also agreed a refined agency model with Amazon.co.uk following the European Commission ruling that the original agency publishers had to terminate their current agency agreements, and come up with new terms.

The fact Agency Publishers are so far behind others who had the foresight to invest in the technology is no excuse to pass that cost to the consumer.

Representatives from Amazon's US and UK Kindle teams held meetings with three major agency publishers and a group of prominent agents last week in a...

Firstly I would opine that the view that Apple did the big 6 publishers such a favour by enabling them to become Agency Publishers is highly debatable.

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.

Also, many of the agency publishers insist on setting the prices themselves, and an unfortunate side effect to that is that the territories they haven't made the effort to price in the local currency remain unavailable.

I am not an Agency publisher but I do not believe that publishers follow the same discount terms as KDP authors.

* takes off the Agency Publisher's hat, its stuffy in there!

So why should the Agency Publisher lower their price since they didn't see any cost savings?

Those MFN clauses — which can be found in all agency publishers» contracts with retailers, not just the contracts with Apple — state that no other retailer can charge a lower e-book price.

We are not an agency publisher.

In their lawsuit against Apple and five agency publishers, the Department of Justice claims «the evidence showing conspiracy is substantial.»

EVP and Publisher, Open Road Integrated Media Interview starts at 15:33 and ends at 43:28 «We are not an agency publisher.

Agency publishers may be happy, but imho that's because they don't grasp the real outcome of their actions.

Kobo continues to press their motion to rescind the ebook pricing consent agreements in Canada between the Competition Commission and the four agency publishers... In a memorandum of fact filed March 10, they [Kobo] reiterated their primary argument that «without a stay, Kobo will be irreparably harmed.