Sentences with phrase «control over the ebook pricing»

* for this to work, you'll need to give me a lot of control over the ebook pricing for the first month; and I probably can only take on books with real commercial appeal

«Competition is not served by permitting a market entrant to eliminate price competition as a condition of entry, and it is cold comfort to consumers that they gained a new ebook retailer at the expense of passing control over all ebook prices to a cartel of book publishers.»

That difference is especially important because the Big Five are the same five publishers which negotiated agency contracts last fall and spring, giving themselves more control over their ebook prices.

The deal is similar to one struck between Amazon and Simon & Schuster two weeks ago, which gave the publisher significant control over ebook pricing when it comes into effect in January 2015.

Not exact matches

eBook sales are down across the board, due to fact that publishers have more control over the pricing and have driven the prices up.

Once big corporate publishers got control over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.

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In a similar way, Amazon jump - started the ebook market with the Kindle and wanted to keep prices low in order to stimulate the market — and to gain and keep control over as much of the supply chain as possible so that it could drive sales of Kindles and related devices.

What I mean is that publishers may be agitated over ebook distribution — mainly about price control — but they don't have an issue with the platform.

The aspect of putting direct control over the price of eBooks into the hands of the publishers, both large and small is ground breaking.

This settlement isn't to be confused with the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple for colluding with five of the then - Big Six publishers to artificially raise the prices of ebooks in order to draw some of the control over the market away from Amazon.

It's unfortunate for the writer who has no control over pricing but I'm simply not going to pay more for an ebook than for a hardcopy.

Being able to keep most if not all of my rights, keep my ebook prices reasonable, and have control over timing, etc..

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With plans ranging from free with a 20 % cut, to as much a $ 199 per month with additional features and benefits, it just might be the answer to major ebook retailers and the lack of control over pricing that authors and publishers have felt.

It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale selling model to an agency selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover releases.

The Smashwords ebook publishing platform puts publishers in full control over the pricing, sampling and distribution of their works.

Frankly, the small price in time spent is nothing compared to the satisfaction of seeing how my eBook is coming along and being able to come ever closer to complete control over how it looks.

The free Smashwords ebook publishing platform puts authors and publishers in full control over the pricing, sampling and distribution of their works.

Furthermore, when you look at the pricing models that trade ebooks have engendered in the market, you see that publishers have allowed pricing to be controlled by forces that are looking to control over an emerging market rather than those who need to fund the content creation.

Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers... At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works.

Unlike some other ebook self - publishing services, Smashwords allows its authors a great measure of control over pricing, and over access to the work.

«The key aspect was a return to agency whereby Hachette, and all publishers in general, have control over the consumer price for ebooks.

Since early May Amazon has been locked in a standoff with the French publishing house after Hachette refused to give Amazon pricing control over its ebooks, which would have seen most of their digital titles discounted to less than $ 10 a book.

It was also about the wider market and the price of print books compared to ebooks and I think they want control over the transition to digital.

That was the year Hachette and Amazon came to blows over ebook pricing, with the publishing giant refusing to cede price control to the online bookseller.

Preston, to his credit, apologized and pointed out that he has no control over the price of his ebooks.

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The cat in question here is [company] Amazon [/ company], which controlled over 90 percent of the ebook market in early 2010 when Apple and the publishers introduced «agency pricing,» which lets publishers set an ebook's retail price and pay the publisher a commission.