Sentences with phrase «called agency pricing model»

In the very short version of this story, Apple got together with big publishing and invented something called the agency pricing model.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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 peagency 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 peAgency 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.