After Random House, the largest publisher of all, switched to so -
called agency pricing plan in 2011, ebook sales growth slowed dramatically.
In the very short version of this story, Apple got together with big publishing and invented something
called the agency pricing model.
There's something
called Agency pricing that affects ebooks, too.
Under the so -
called agency pricing model, publishers keep roughly 70 % of the revenue from each individual sale, with Amazon receiving an estimated 30 % as their fee.
The most recent attempt started in 2010 when five major U.S. publishers — MacMillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Penguin — entered into a so -
called agency pricing model with Apple, then allegedly used the Apple deal as leverage to force other retailers into adopting the same pricing model.
Anonymous... I don't know that I would
call agency pricing something that is leading to competition, but what it does do is level the playing field; especially if the retailers can still discount the prices.
Not exact matches
Considering what the International Energy
Agency called an «exceptionally precarious» macroeconomic outlook next year, our low - end
price expectations may be too high.
So if you drew a horizontal line and
call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and
call that stock
prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's
agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.
Bitcoin was back on the defensive Thursday, as
prices dropped below $ 10,000 after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said digital asset exchanges must register with the
agency to trade so -
called security tokens.
Indian buffalo meat sells for as little as the state - food
agency set
price of 65,000 rupiah ($ US5) a kilogram in so -
called wet markets in Jakarta, compared with about 115,000 rupiah a kilogram for beef from Australia in more upscale farmers» markets.
He says county residents can not afford to pay the
price of higher electric bills resulting from the new zone and is
calling on a federal
agency to halt the zone's implementation.
Apple introduced a new model —
called the «
agency» model — where the publisher sets the
price of the e-book and the retailer sells it for that
price, taking a 30 percent fee.
That statement was that Apple could not engage in book discounting under the
agency model for at least two years, and then it could only negotiate terms of the so -
called «
agency model» (in which the publishers set the
prices of their books, not the retailer) with one publisher at a time spread out over a period of six months each.
The new
pricing strategy is
called agency - lite, which mandates these stores sell e-books at a fixed cost.
Apple, Penguin and Macmillan want to protect the so -
called agency model that lets publishers — not vendors — set e-book
prices, said the people on April 5, who declined to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.
In April of 2010, the so -
called «
agency model» of ebook
pricing came into effect and caused a furor in the publishing industry.
The Justice Department's case against Apple hinges on so -
called «
agency pricing.»
The FACT (I'll
call it a fact since Hachette didn't deny it) that Hachette waited so long to respond to Amazon initially AND continues to drag their feet — while the authors (whom they claim are the victims of Amazon) suffer — and the FACT that they have now rejected TWO offers to compensate those same authors with the intention (evidenced by their own comments) of getting to the first legal opportunity to attempt to negotiate
Agency pricing back — isn't just a smoking gun.
But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal
price - fixing scheme
called «
agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.
I mean, Amazon had a very high percentage, around 90 percent, a few years ago when the
agency model, as it's
called, was introduced in these five or six publishers that agreed to set the
price of e-books between $ 12 and $ 15.
One last fact: Even after the
price - fixing issue
called «
agency pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other ebook channel that comes online between now and forever, whatever
price they want for an ebook.
Since those publishers were forced to abandon the «
agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty pe
agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something
called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty pe
Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their
prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty percent.
Amazon tried to force the
price of the books down too far too fast, and the publishers fought back what was
called the
agency model whereby they are able to set a retail
price that Amazon can move from.
Hachette fought for, and won from Amazon, the return to something
called the
Agency Model, whereby they set their
price and Amazon wasn't allowed to reduce that
price.
But now I've had time to look at the so -
called agency model of
pricing... and I think it makes sense.
One key sacrifice was letting publishers move over to a so -
called «
agency model,» which let the publishers set e-book
prices, rather than giving Amazon that power.
(They
called this «
agency pricing,» because Apple acted as a sales agent rather than a retailer.)
Last year, a federal court in New York ruled that five houses, Hachette included, had illegally colluded to change all of their e-book sales arrangements to something
called the
agency model, which would allow them to control the
prices at which their titles are sold.
Publishers have been doing this in part to support their print - publishing operations, and they have been able to do so because they managed to force (or convince, depending on your perspective) Amazon to allow them to engage in what's
called «
agency pricing.»
It did so by abruptly and collectively by abandoning the long - time industry - norm of wholesale
pricing and adopting instead what is
called the
agency model, in which retailers get a percentage of any sale rather than being allowed to set the
price of goods themselves.
It
calls its market share and revenues here as «negligible» and says this will happen in Canada if
agency pricing goes away.
For example, we are frequently asked for a sample critique and / or edit and
price quote by authors who admit that a so -
called literary
agency sent them in search of these services.
While this shift in emphasis has been very profitable for Amazon and appears to have been accepted by enough Kindle customers to allow ebooks
priced over $ 9.99 to claim 30 % of the rungs on the bestseller list, 30 % may not be a high enough share to
call this a victory for the
agency model.
Last week, Cue took the stand to explain the reasoning that led Apple and the publishers to set up an entirely new
pricing model for electronic books,
called the
agency model.
«Apple and the five publishers negotiated to switch to a so -
called agency model, which would allow the publishers to set their own
prices for e-books in exchange for giving Apple a 30 % sales commission.
So when Apple proposed in late 2009 and early 2010 that there could be a new way to sell
called «
agency» which would put retail
pricing power for ebooks into the publishers» hands, it met a very receptive audience of publishers.
It's because of a thing
called «
agency pricing,» and the U.S. Department of Justice are considering suing Apple and the major book - publishers over colluding to fix
prices.
Apple and the first five of the «big - six» publishers to adopt
agency pricing — all of them except Random House, I'll
call them the «big five» here — are the defendants in a number of lawsuits.
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A big part of the underlying case turns on «most favored nation» clauses and the publishers» decision to impose so -
called «
agency pricing,» which saw retailers like Amazon and Apple take a commission from a
price set by the publishers.
The proposed remedy from the Department of Justice follows Apple being found guilty last month of colluding with publishers to raise ebook
pricing and force rivals to the so -
called «
agency model» and sets out several recommendations for how the Cupertino firm could be prevented from «conspiring to thwart competition» in the years ahead.
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The government - supported
agencies that back most mortgages, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, impose additional fees,
called loan level
price adjustments, which make 30 - year mortgages more expensive.
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Agency (IEA)
calls Europe's «coal renaissance» a temporary phenomenon; it forecasts an increasing use of renewables, shuttering of coal plants, and a better balance between gas and coal
prices in the coming years.
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