Sentences with phrase «books than any other agency»

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Other than that, the only way to book away travel is through travel agencies that do packages.

In 2009 a higher percentage of U. S. students (than those in the other six countries) told PISA, the international testing agency, that they came from a family with few books in the home.

«Hachette Book Group's six publishing divisions have made major acquisitions all year long from the biggest and best literary agencies, often for less than other houses offered, as well as contract renewals with many of our biggest authors,» says a Hachette representative.

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

Apples mythical marketing machine may be able to make «agency pricing» look like something other than price fixing, but the previous rules in the app seller terms prohibiting different pricing off - app, is right up there with book - burning for independent booksellers and the readers who love them.

The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers» control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $ 9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases.

But PRH is also choosing to list - price their books far higher (in both sales - weighted and non-weighted terms) than most of the Agency 4 are now (other than Simon & Schuster, who is pricing nearly as high as PRH on average but getting pretty much no Amazon discount at all.)

The price could also be slightly lower than competitors, but sometimes it's similar to other online travel agency and direct booking rates.

Prices were a little better than other portals, even when booking directly with the rental agencies.

I typically like to book directly with the airlines rather than with other booking agencies, however, that doesn't necessarily matter.

Loyalty members also are more likely than other travelers to book directly with hotels, which usually gets them a discount and helps the hotel avoid paying a fee to an online travel agency like Kayak or Expedia.

Other than Newegg, e-commerce platform Overstock, one of the world's largest travel booking agency Expedia, eGifter, Gyft, satellite television service provider Dish, and CheapAir also accept bitcoin as a payment method.

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Finding time to talk about anything other than foster care or your private fostering agency will be a treat, and booking that monthly babysitter will make your date night more important than ever before.