Sentences with phrase «away of agency pricing»

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

Not exact matches

What we should be wanting is more widespread adoption of ebooks in general and getting away from the agency model and artificially high prices can do that.

Amazon quickly came to fully appreciate that not just Macmillan but all five Publisher Defendants had irrevocably committed themselves to the agency model across all retailers, including taking control of retail pricing and thereby stripping away any opportunity for e-book retailers to compete on price.

The Publisher Defendants» collective adoption of the Apple Agency Agreements allowed them (facilitated by Apple) to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices in three steps: (a) They took away retail pricing authority from retailers; (b) they then set retail e-book prices according to the Apple price tiers; and (c) they then exported the agency model and higher retail prices to the rest of the industry, in part to comply with the retail price MFN included in each Apple Agency AgreAgency Agreements allowed them (facilitated by Apple) to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices in three steps: (a) They took away retail pricing authority from retailers; (b) they then set retail e-book prices according to the Apple price tiers; and (c) they then exported the agency model and higher retail prices to the rest of the industry, in part to comply with the retail price MFN included in each Apple Agency Agreagency model and higher retail prices to the rest of the industry, in part to comply with the retail price MFN included in each Apple Agency AgreAgency Agreement.

Even as publishers in the United States levy agency - pricing on their ebooks at much higher rates than the Amazonian $ 9.99 preference, many observers fear, as Wischenbart cites, that this is driving readers away from trade ebooks and contributing to the slowing of digital growth in sales.

Indeed, at the time the Publisher Defendants snatched retail pricing authority away from Amazon and other e-book retailers, not one of them had built an internal retail pricing apparatus sufficient to do anything other than set retail prices at the Apple Agency Agreements» ostensible caps.

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.

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).

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.

The more I think about it the more I believe that this is a smoke screen used by a government agency to rally public discord away from their own bureaucracies which via their HST, land transfer taxes and mortgage insurance rules — all percentages calculated on the sale price of the home by the way — do more to inflate house prices without providing any evidentiary benefit to the homeowner.