Sentences with phrase «artificially keeping the prices high»

It is also remarkable that while the share of the traditional publishing houses (including the Big 5) falls (probably partly due to the publishers artificially keeping the prices high), the indie market grows: individual authors sell more ebooks daily on Amazon than the publishers with ISBN put together.

Not exact matches

But the black market and the occasional robbery may simply be the byproducts of a system of industry control that keeps prices artificially high, Charlebois says.

We continue to artificially support this small group, barely six per cent of all Canadian farmers, by fixing prices, imposing extremely high tariffs to keep those prices high, and controlling production.

The oil surge has pushed U.S. petrol prices to US$ 3 a gallon, prompting Trump to tweet in an unexpected outburst last Friday that OPEC is keeping prices «artificially very high.»

President Trump criticized OPEC on Friday morning, saying that it is unacceptable that crude prices are being kept artificially high.

Modern economists point out that cartels or monopolistic companies can artificially hold prices higher and keep them there in order to reap higher profits.

The diamond industry is a classic example of a market where demand is high, but supply is made artificially scarce by companies selling fewer diamonds in order to keep prices high.

The EU spends millions of euros every year making its farms less efficient and distributes stockpiled food free to institutions to keep market prices artificially high.

Its decision not to investigate claims Fonterra was abusing its dominant position to keep prices artificially high, followed a similar «no worries» verdict delivered recently by the Australian Consumer and Competition over pricing practices of mega-retailer Coles.

Note: Baby Milk Action's partners in the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in Italy successfully campaigned against a cartel of formula companies keeping prices artificially high there.

George Osborne's scheme for first - time buyers will keep prices artificially high and leave consumers burdened with debt.

Let trade publishers keep artificially high prices, and discourage would - be authors by shaming them into thinking self publishing is as low as eating out of a garbage can.

But as a Wall Street Journal story points out, they are still shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to e-book prices, by keeping them artificially high in an attempt to shore up their profit margins and protect their existing print business.

«Amazon wants to keep e-book prices affordable, and Hachette wants to keep them artificially high.

Given that big publishers keep the prices of eBooks artificially high (they'd sell millions of $ 2 eBooks, but I suspect their $ 20 printed complements wouldn't look very appealing to consumers), small publishers have exploited the low production and distribution costs to flood the market with $ 1 — $ 3 eBooks.

It may be your intimacy with the legacy publishing world that's caused you to confuse its practices of artificially keeping consumer prices high with the fact that in normal consumer markets, prices tend to fall.

By claiming iBook's pricing model violated anti-trust, the government created the Amazon «monopoly» and allowed publishers to keep ebook prices artificially high.

The details are complex, but the gist is this: Amazon wants to keep e-book prices affordable, and Hachette wants to keep them artificially high.

Agency pricing has returned to ebooks, which means that publishers are setting their own ebook prices and the retailers, like Amazon, are not discounting... Traditional publishers are deliberately receiving a lower percentage royalty to keep ebook prices artificially high.

The opposers of FBP agreements argue that this is only a weapon in publishers» hand to artificially keep book prices high and is against the buyers» needs.

«'' One variation I heard is that Paulson's buddies will form new companies and have G - Sax leverage loans and convert debt into equity that way as a way to keep up shareholder equity — then they will sell at the artificially high price back to others like them in a mini — bubble.

The president and Congress should cut federal subsidies that keep the price of insurance in some high - risk zones (flood plains, coastal areas threatened by rising seas, and regions prone to wildfires) artificially — and disastrously — low.

Limited supplies of the existing cars have kept prices artificially high throughout 2008.

Being able to keep the price of gas artificially high has been an absolute trump card for the Russian economy.

It is an «interesting» argument that says we need to artificially keep oil prices high because... err... the days of cheap oil are over because... err... of peak oil.

While a jury could have more difficulty in accepting an allegation that the accused intended to deceive the market as a whole, if the evidence was there to suggest that the accused resorted to (or intended to) deception in order to keep the price of milk artificially high, a jury would surely be willing to convict.

But in order to protect the cable TV industry, where telecoms companies can really turn a profit, prices for standalone internet have been kept artificially high.

Builders give all kinds of credits and free upgrade packages, to keep their initial prices artificially high, for future sales comp.s.