Later that year, Smashwords was able to get other ebook retailers to give
our authors agency terms as well.
Not exact matches
However, other
authors have voiced concerns about consumption of artificial sweeteners, because they may promote an appetite for sweet things, they harm bone and dental health, and their long
term safety profile is not precisely clear.55 However, the European Food Safety
Agency recently concluded that aspartame, the most common artificial sweetener, is safe at present consumption levels.56 The shift to milk consumption as sugar sweetened drink consumption falls might be expected.
«[T] he increased reliance funding
agencies place on [such] classic bibliometric indicators» as short -
term citation metrics and journal impact measures thus hampers the chances that innovative work will win support and constrains both the progress of science and the career prospects of innovative but lesser - known researchers, the
authors observe.
[This study] adds to our knowledge in confirming that there is no short - or long -
term risk of epilepsy,» says Nick Andrews, deputy head of the statistics unit at the UK Health Protection
Agency in London, and lead
author of the previous UK study.
We understood that the shift to
agency would be very costly to Penguin and its shareholders in the short -
term, but we reasoned that the prevention of a monopoly in the supply of e-books had to be in the best interests, not just of Penguin, but of consumers,
authors and booksellers as well.
Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords and a long - time supporter of the
agency model, spoke to Good e-Reader about why this model is good for
authors and publishers — the two stakeholders who must secure a profit in order to continue providing books — and good for smaller retailers who otherwise couldn't compete with a corporate behemoth in
terms of pricing.
I am not an
Agency publisher but I do not believe that publishers follow the same discount
terms as KDP
authors.
The comment about not knowing the publisher's
terms on
Agency is correct and I do not believe that publishers follow the same discount rules as KDP
authors.
The agent Rachelle Gardner writes in
Author Rights and Responsibilities that an author has «the responsibility to educate yourself about your options» in terms of agency representation and what type of publishing you p
Author Rights and Responsibilities that an
author has «the responsibility to educate yourself about your options» in terms of agency representation and what type of publishing you p
author has «the responsibility to educate yourself about your options» in
terms of
agency representation and what type of publishing you pursue.
For example, photographers sign stock
agency contracts with outrageously bad
terms they should never accept, and
authors sign publishing contracts with outrageously bad
terms they should never accept, in both cases demonstrating a desperate willingness to undervalue their work to nearly nothing just to get into print.
When
agency happened (2010), they started to offer indie
authors what amounted to
agency terms: 70 percent of the selling price for ebooks.
That's why we publicly backed Macmillan when Amazon tried to use its online print book dominance to enforce its preferred e-book sales
terms, even though Apple's
agency model also meant lower royalties for
authors.
«We understood that the shift to
agency would be very costly to Penguin and its shareholders in the short
term, but we reasoned that the prevention of a monopoly in the supply of e-books had to be in the best interests, not just of Penguin, but of consumers,
authors and booksellers as well,» Makinson said in a statement.
The
Agency case in Canada is not directly linked to what Penn and Lefebvre are talking about —
author pricing of books sold through Kobo and other online retail platforms — although it's interesting to hear Lefebvre discuss what's better in
terms of discount procedures for Kobo (higher regular prices), and thus what its scanners are watching for when it comes to featured book promotions.
Besides, to apply such qualification to HTSs also implies to recognise the qualification of their
author (e.g. CEN) as «institutions, bodies, offices or
agencies of the Union»,
terms used by Article 267 TFEU.